Google Drive

by Model Context Protocol

v2025.1.14

MIT

Repository Docs npm

Files & Storage

google-drivefilesdocumentsstorage

Summary

Search and read Google Drive files — Docs, Sheets, and Slides converted to text an assistant can use.

Features

Search files across a Google Drive account
Read Docs, Sheets, and Slides as text
Automatic export of Google formats to readable output

Installation

Set up this MCP server in your favorite AI agent — copy a ready-made configuration below.

Any MCP-compatible agent

Most agents (Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, and more) read a standard mcpServers configuration.

Open your agent's MCP configuration file.
Merge the snippet below into it.
Restart the agent — the "Google Drive" tools will be available.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-drive": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@modelcontextprotocol/server-gdrive"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

Add the server with a single CLI command.

claude mcp add google-drive -- npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-gdrive

Claude Desktop

Add the server to claude_desktop_config.json (Settings → Developer → Edit Config).

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-drive": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@modelcontextprotocol/server-gdrive"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Cursor

{
  "command": "npx",
  "args": [
    "-y",
    "@modelcontextprotocol/server-gdrive"
  ]
}

Windsurf

{
  "command": "npx",
  "args": [
    "-y",
    "@modelcontextprotocol/server-gdrive"
  ]
}

VS Code

{
  "command": "npx",
  "args": [
    "-y",
    "@modelcontextprotocol/server-gdrive"
  ]
}

Description

The Google Drive MCP server lets an assistant search and read the files in a Drive account, handling the format conversion that makes Google's proprietary types usable.

What it does

Search across the whole Drive by name and content
Read files, with automatic export: Docs become Markdown, Sheets become CSV, Slides become text, and PDFs and plain files are returned as-is

Why the conversion matters

A Google Doc is not a file you can read — it is a database record behind an API. This server handles the export step, so an assistant asked about "the Q3 planning doc" can find it and read it without you exporting anything manually.

Typical uses

Summarising documents, extracting data from spreadsheets, answering questions across a folder of meeting notes, and pulling context into a task without leaving the assistant.

Setup

Requires a Google Cloud project with the Drive API enabled and an OAuth flow completed once to store credentials. Read-only, which is the appropriate scope for a tool that can see everything in your Drive.

Part of the MCP reference collection, now in the archived servers repository.

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