- "UsageInstructions": ""The Brave Search MCP Server provides a powerful REST API proxy to access Brave Search capabilities through a standardized interface. This container allows you to integrate Brave's comprehensive search services into your AI applications, with features ranging from web search to image search and summarization.\n\n\n\n## Key Features\n- Brave LLM Context API delivers pre-extracted, relevance-scored web content optimized for grounding LLM responses in real-time search results.\n- Web search with comprehensive results and metadata\n- Local business and location search\n- Image and video search capabilities\n- News search for current events and trending stories\n- AI-optimized results with extra snippets\n- Content summarization across search results\n\n\n\n## Usage and limits\n- Cost: $5 CPM (cost per thousand) / $0.005 per request\n- Rate: Maximum of 50 requests per second\n- Volume: Unlimited requests\n\n\n\n## Getting started\n\n### Prerequisites\n1. **Brave Search API Key**: Create an AWS Marketplace Subscription for [Brave Search API](https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-qjlabherxghtq) \n2. **Container Configuration**: Configure your MCP Server with the required environment variables \n\n#### Container Configuration\n\n##### Environment Variables\n```json\n\"environmentVariables\": { \"BRAVE_API_KEY\": \"<YOUR_BRAVE_API_KEY>\", \"BRAVE_MCP_TRANSPORT\": \"http\", , \"BRAVE_MCP_STATELESS\": \"true\", \"BRAVE_MCP_PORT\": \"8000\", \"BRAVE_MCP_HOST\": \"0.0.0.0\" }}'\n```\n\n##### Network Configuration \n```json\n\"networkConfiguration\": { \"networkMode\": \"PUBLIC\" }\n```\n\n##### Protocol Configuration\n```json\n\"protocolConfiguration\": { \"serverProtocol\": \"MCP\" }\n```\n\n\n\n## Example\n\n### [`brave_web_search`](https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search)\n\nPerforms general web searches with rich metadata. Best for general information queries, research, and finding diverse content types.\n\n#### Example\n\n```json\n{\n \"query\": \"climate change solutions\",\n \"count\": 10,\n \"extra_snippets\": true\n}\n```\n\n\n\n\nReference documentation for additional endpoints:\n\n- [`brave_local_search`](https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/services/place-search)\n- [`brave_image_search`](https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/services/image-search)\n- [`brave_video_search`](https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/services/video-search)\n- [`brave_news_search`](https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/services/news-search)\n- [`brave_summarizer`](https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/documentation/services/summarizer)\n\n\n\n## Best Practices\n1. Use specific queries to get more relevant results\n2. Leverage `extra_snippets` for AI applications that need more context\n3. Use appropriate `result_filter` values to focus on specific content types\n4. Consider `safesearch` settings based on your application's audience\n5. Utilize the summarizer for efficient information extraction\n\n## Support\nFor detailed API documentation, visit the [Brave Search API Documentation](https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/app/documentation/web-search/get-started). For all general inquiries and support, please contact us at searchapi-support@brave.com.",
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