This MCP server integrates with Google Drive to allow listing, reading, and searching over files.
- search
- Search for files in Google Drive
- Input:
query
(string): Search query - Returns file names and MIME types of matching files
The server provides access to Google Drive files:
- Files (
gdrive:///<file_id>
)- Supports all file types
- Google Workspace files are automatically exported:
- Docs → Markdown
- Sheets → CSV
- Presentations → Plain text
- Drawings → PNG
- Other files are provided in their native format
- Create a new Google Cloud project
- Enable the Google Drive API
- Configure an OAuth consent screen ("internal" is fine for testing)
- Add OAuth scope
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly
- Create an OAuth Client ID for application type "Desktop App"
- Download the JSON file of your client's OAuth keys
- Rename the key file to
gcp-oauth.keys.json
and place into the root of this repo (i.e.servers/gcp-oauth.keys.json
)
Make sure to build the server with either npm run build
or npm run watch
.
To authenticate and save credentials:
- Run the server with the
auth
argument:node ./dist auth
- This will open an authentication flow in your system browser
- Complete the authentication process
- Credentials will be saved in the root of this repo (i.e.
servers/.gdrive-server-credentials.json
)
To integrate this server with the desktop app, add the following to your app's server configuration:
Authentication:
Assuming you have completed setting up the OAuth application on Google Cloud, you can now auth the server with the following command, replacing /path/to/gcp-oauth.keys.json
with the path to your OAuth keys file:
docker run -i --rm --mount type=bind,source=/path/to/gcp-oauth.keys.json,target=/gcp-oauth.keys.json -v mcp-gdrive:/gdrive-server -e GDRIVE_OAUTH_PATH=/gcp-oauth.keys.json -e "GDRIVE_CREDENTIALS_PATH=/gdrive-server/credentials.json" -p 3000:3000 mcp/gdrive auth
The command will print the URL to open in your browser. Open this URL in your browser and complete the authentication process. The credentials will be saved in the mcp-gdrive
volume.
Once authenticated, you can use the server in your app's server configuration:
{
"mcpServers": {
"gdrive": {
"command": "docker",
"args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "-v", "mcp-gdrive:/gdrive-server", "-e", "GDRIVE_CREDENTIALS_PATH=/gdrive-server/credentials.json", "mcp/gdrive"]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"gdrive": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@modelcontextprotocol/server-gdrive"
]
}
}
}
This MCP server is licensed under the MIT License. This means you are free to use, modify, and distribute the software, subject to the terms and conditions of the MIT License. For more details, please see the LICENSE file in the project repository.