Description

Official Anthropic server to retrieve web pages, news, and local business results via Brave Search API.

Installation

npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search
npm install @modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search
git clone https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers

Claude Desktop Configuration

Add this configuration to your Claude Desktop config file to enable this MCP server:

Config file location: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Config file location: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

Config file location: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "brave-search-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search"
      ]
    }
  }
}