What is the Google Drive MCP server?
Allow AI systems to list, search, upload, download, and manage files and folders in Google Drive.
How to install Google Drive
Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.
transport: stdio
Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.Environment / auth
GOOGLE_ACCESS_TOKENrequiredsecretGoogle OAuth access token with Drive scopes.
MCP_TRANSPORTrequiredTransport type.
GOOGLE_CLIENT_IDrequiredGoogle OAuth client ID.
GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRETrequiredsecretGoogle OAuth client secret.
Claude Desktop
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"google-drive-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"google-drive-mcp"
],
"env": {
"GOOGLE_ACCESS_TOKEN": "<YOUR_GOOGLE_ACCESS_TOKEN>",
"MCP_TRANSPORT": "<YOUR_MCP_TRANSPORT>",
"GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID": "<YOUR_GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID>",
"GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET": "<YOUR_GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET>"
}
}
}
}Cursor
~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"google-drive-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"google-drive-mcp"
],
"env": {
"GOOGLE_ACCESS_TOKEN": "<YOUR_GOOGLE_ACCESS_TOKEN>",
"MCP_TRANSPORT": "<YOUR_MCP_TRANSPORT>",
"GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID": "<YOUR_GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID>",
"GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET": "<YOUR_GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET>"
}
}
}
}Windsurf
~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"google-drive-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"google-drive-mcp"
],
"env": {
"GOOGLE_ACCESS_TOKEN": "<YOUR_GOOGLE_ACCESS_TOKEN>",
"MCP_TRANSPORT": "<YOUR_MCP_TRANSPORT>",
"GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID": "<YOUR_GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID>",
"GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET": "<YOUR_GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET>"
}
}
}
}VS Code
.vscode/mcp.json
{
"servers": {
"google-drive-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"google-drive-mcp"
],
"env": {
"GOOGLE_ACCESS_TOKEN": "<YOUR_GOOGLE_ACCESS_TOKEN>",
"MCP_TRANSPORT": "<YOUR_MCP_TRANSPORT>",
"GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID": "<YOUR_GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID>",
"GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET": "<YOUR_GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET>"
}
}
}
}Claude Code
claude mcp add google-drive-mcp --env GOOGLE_ACCESS_TOKEN=<YOUR_GOOGLE_ACCESS_TOKEN> --env MCP_TRANSPORT=<YOUR_MCP_TRANSPORT> --env GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID=<YOUR_GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID> --env GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET=<YOUR_GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET> -- npx -y google-drive-mcpRelated MCP servers
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