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Google Drive MCP Server

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Search & read cloud documents
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★ 3.7k Stars Category · Cloud Storage Emerging
This community-maintained server uses OAuth to access Google Drive. It supports full-text search and reading Google Docs and Sheets content so cloud documents can be used as conversational context.

Tools

search_files
Search files in Drive by content
read_file
Read document or spreadsheet content
list_files
List files in a folder
export_document
Export a document to another format

Setup

Create OAuth credentials in Google Cloud Console, download credentials.json, and complete the authorization flow once.
claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gdrive": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-gdrive"],
      "env": {
        "GDRIVE_CREDENTIALS_PATH": "./credentials.json"
      }
    }
  }
}

Use cases

Find information across a team's document archive
Summarize data from multiple spreadsheets
Answer questions using source material stored in Drive

Supported clients

Claude DesktopFull support
CursorPartial support