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brave/brave-search-mcp-server
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brave/brave-search-mcp-server is a TypeScript MCP server licensed under MIT.
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Has 1,496 GitHub stars.
Used by 51 other projects.
Has 19 contributors.
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TypeScript MIT
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Stars 15% 1,496
1,496 stars → well-known project
Freshness 25% 19d ago
Last commit 19d ago → recently updated
Issue Health 25% 41%
30/73 issues closed → many open issues
Contributors 10% 19
19 contributors → active community
Dependents 25% 51
51 dependents → few downstream users
npm Downloads N/A
PyPI Downloads N/A
Forks 210
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License MIT
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# Brave Search MCP Server An MCP server implementation that integrates the Brave Search API, providing comprehensive search capabilities including web search, local business search, place search, image search, video search, news search, LLM context, and AI-powered summarization. This project supports both STDIO and HTTP transports, with STDIO as the default mode. ## Migration ### 1.x to 2.x #### Default transport now STDIO To follow established MCP conventions, the server now defaults to STDIO. If you would like to continue using HTTP, you will need to set the `BRAVE_MCP_TRANSPORT` environment variable to `http`, or provide the runtime argument `--transport http` when launching the server. #### Response structure of `brave_image_search` Version 1.x of the MCP server would return base64-encoded image data along with image URLs. This dramatically slowed down the response, as well as consumed unnecessarily context in the session. Version 2.x removes the base64-encoded data, and retRead full README on GitHub →
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