What can you do with the Brave Search integration?

LiveContext exposes 6 operations on Brave Search, covering image, local business, news and search result. Common uses include finding tutorial videos on a topic, monitoring press coverage of a company and expanding a seed keyword into related searches.

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Brave Search integration

Brave Search API for independent web results served from Brave's own index: web search with rich snippets and optional AI summaries, plus the image, video, news, local-business and suggestion endpoints. The key travels in the X-Subscription-Token header.

6 toolsAPI keyAPI docs

Connect Brave Search How integrations work

Common Brave Search use cases

finding tutorial videos on a topic
monitoring press coverage of a company
expanding a seed keyword into related searches
sourcing illustration candidates for an article
grounding an agent answer in current web results
enriching a local search with opening hours and ratings
powering a search box
building a daily news digest
monitoring video coverage of a brand
finding the original source of an image

What you can do with Brave Search

Each of these is one operation on one endpoint, available both as a workflow step and as a tool an AI agent can call on its own. Nothing bundles several operations into one action, so what a run did stays readable afterwards.

Most endpoints run on the free plan. A few, mainly the ones that publish on your behalf, need a paid plan.

Image, 1 operation

GETimage_search
Searches the web for images through Brave.

Local business, 1 operation

GETlocal_pois
Retrieves local business details for ids returned by a Brave web search.

News, 1 operation

GETnews_search
Searches recent news articles through Brave.

Search result, 1 operation

GETweb_search
Searches the web through Brave's independent index.

Suggestion, 1 operation

GETsuggest
Returns Brave autocomplete suggestions for a partial query.

Video, 1 operation

GETvideo_search
Searches the web for videos through Brave.

Use Brave Search from Claude Code, Cursor or Codex

Connect Brave Search in LiveContext, create an API key in Settings, then add the LiveContext MCP server to your client. Its Brave Search operations become tools the client can call, next to every other integration you connected.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http livecontext https://livecontext.ai/mcp --header "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Codex (~/.codex/config.toml)

[mcp_servers.livecontext]
url = "https://livecontext.ai/mcp"

[mcp_servers.livecontext.http_headers]
"X-API-Key" = "YOUR_API_KEY"

Cursor, Claude Desktop and other JSON configs

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "livecontext": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://livecontext.ai/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Set up the MCP server step by step

How to connect Brave Search

Create your workspace
Sign up free. Nothing to install.
Connect Brave Search once
Add your Brave Search connection in Settings. Every tool from this integration reuses it, and secrets are encrypted at rest and visible only to you.
Describe the job in chat
The workflow builds itself in front of you and picks the endpoints it needs. Drag the steps yourself on the canvas whenever you would rather be explicit.

Brave Search integration FAQ

What can you do with the Brave Search integration?: LiveContext exposes 6 operations on Brave Search, covering image, local business, news and search result. Common uses include finding tutorial videos on a topic, monitoring press coverage of a company and expanding a seed keyword into related searches.