I just connected Claude to an internet search engine using MCP. Here's how you can do it too in under 5 minutes:

First, you will need to download the latest version of our Claude desktop app here:

To use Brave Web Search specifically, you will need to sign up for a free API key here:

Next, open up your Claude Desktop configuration file: - macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json - Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

Then, just add this to that file and save it: { "mcpServers": { "brave-search": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-brave-search"], "env": { "BRAVE_API_KEY": "ADD_YOUR_API_KEY_HERE" } } } }

Restart your Claude desktop app for the changes to load. You can check that the server has been configured properly if you navigate to "Claude" > "Settings" in the top bar and check the Developer tab in this window that pops up

After that, just ask Claude to make a web search for you! The server tools automatically get loaded in to the system prompt so that Claude knows it has access to them.

If you want to improve on this server, explore more servers, or make your own integrations, go check out our GitHub repo: We have tons of servers already pre-built for you to try out!

Note that the point of this is not to make a performant LLM-powered search engine, this is definitely not that! What it does do is quickly demonstrate how powerful and flexible MCP can be

Can I connect Claude to Perplexity search engine?

Very cool. Thanks for highlighting our API!