How to add Brave Search to Claude Desktop with MCP
May 6, 2025
This guide covers the steps required to enable Brave Search as a tool to be used in the Claude desktop app using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Since both Brave’s and Anthropic’s products are evolving quickly, it’s best to always check official documentation for the most up-to-date information and instructions. In order to use MCP, you will need to have Node.js installed on your computer. Please note that some Windows users have encountered issues with MCP when using a node installer, rather than node version manager.
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How to use Brave Search with Dify
May 6, 2025
This guide will help you get set up with the Brave Search API in Dify, an open-source platform designed to simplify AI application development, and offer real-time, accurate search results as part of AI agent orchestration. Dify offers an intuitive interface that brings together AI workflows, RAG pipelines, and agent capabilities, empowering developers to rapidly move from initial concept to production-ready applications.
Sign-up and create a key for Brave Search API Register or login to a Brave Search API account.
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How to use Brave Search with n8n (local)
May 6, 2025
This guide covers the steps to enable Brave Search via the official Brave Search community node in n8n.io, a flexible and community-driven automation platform. Please note, this covers the local version of n8n.
Sign-up and create a key for Brave Search API Register or login to a Brave Search API account.
For use with n8n, you must ensure you are subscribed to one of the Data for AI plans, which are found under the Subscriptions tab in the left hand menu of the dashboard.
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Mapping the AI software and services landscape
May 6, 2025
OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT 3.5 was an inflection point for the broad adoption of generative artificial intelligence. Since then, there’s been an explosion of new AI business ventures from startups all the way to Big Tech, building across a wide range of vertical and horizontal markets. Today, Generative AI has already made its way into a significant share of the software we use day to day.
There are various ways to divide and categorize the sprawling AI market, but we chose a method that allowed for effective grouping based on the primary business function of each company.
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How to use Brave Search with Open WebUI
May 2, 2024
This guide covers the steps required to enable Brave Search as the default search engine in Open WebUI, a free and extensible self-hosted AI interface. Since both Brave Search API and any Open WebUI frameworks or libraries can evolve quickly, it’s best to always check the official documentation for the most up-to-date details.
1. Install Open WebUI using Docker Follow the official documentation to install Open WebUI on your choice Linux, Mac, or Windows: https://docs.
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Using Brave Search for higher quality training data and better AI
Dec 15, 2023
Training data is the starting point for any machine learning (ML) approach to artificial intelligence (AI). Most major large language models (LLMs) are first pre-trained on vast amounts of raw text to "learn" how to predict language. But for that raw-text training data to be useful, it needs to be diverse. In this article, we'll explore how the Brave Search API can supply just such a diversity of data, and help you build better AI.
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What is a search engine API?
Sep 22, 2023
An application programming interface, or API, is a set of code that takes inputs, and produces outputs according to specific rules. In this quick primer, learn how search engine APIs work, and how they can power the AI applications you use everyday.
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What sets the Brave Search API apart?
Sep 22, 2023
Many apps and websites have search functionality. To power this search, developers often rely on search engine APIs. In this quick primer, we'll introduce the Brave Search API, and the key factors that set it apart from the competition.
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Brave Search API vs the Bing API
Sep 22, 2023
Brave Search is the fastest growing search engine since Bing, with over 8 billion annualized searches. In this side-by-side comparison, we'll explore how the Brave Search API stacks up against the Bing API.
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