brave_image_search
How to use it
brave_image_search is exposed by the Brave Search MCP MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the brave_image_search tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.
Install Brave Search MCP
docker run --rm -p 3001:3001 -e BRAVE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY_HERE" brave-search-mcp:latest --httpOther tools in Brave Search MCP (18)
(number, optional): The number of results to return (max 20, default 10)
(enum, optional): Filters search results by when they were discovered
(number, optional, default 16): The maximum number of snippets across all URLs. Minimum 1, maximum 100.
(number, optional, default 2): The maximum number of snippets per URL. Minimum 1, maximum 100.
(number, optional, default 2048): The approximate maximum number of tokens in the returned context. Minimum 1024, maximum 32768.
(number, optional, default 512): The maximum number of tokens per URL. Minimum 512, maximum 8192.
(number, optional, default 8): The maximum number of URLs to include in the response. Minimum 1, maximum 50.
(number, optional, default 8000): Approximate maximum serialized response size in compact mode. Minimum 1000, maximum 100000.
(number, optional, default 400): Maximum characters per snippet in compact mode. Minimum 80, maximum 4000.
(number, optional, default 0): The offset for pagination
(string): The term to search the internet for
(enum, optional, default compact): compact applies Brave's balanced relevance filtering plus local snippet filtering/truncation. full disables Brave's relevance filtering and returns raw snippets without local filtering or truncation.
(string, optional): Optional URL to target. When provided, query and URL are combined for retrieval and only snippets from this exact URL are returned.