Google Maps Places MCP Server

Name: Google Maps Places MCP Server
Author: io.github.domdomegg

io.github.domdomegg/google-maps-places-mcp

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What is the Google Maps Places MCP server?

Allow AI systems to search for places and get business info via Google Maps Places API.

How to install Google Maps Places

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

GOOGLE_ACCESS_TOKEN
required
secret
Google OAuth access token with cloud-platform scope.
MCP_TRANSPORT
required
Transport type.
GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID
required
Google OAuth client ID.
GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET
required
secret
Google OAuth client secret.

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-maps-places-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "google-maps-places-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-maps-places-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "google-maps-places-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-maps-places-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "google-maps-places-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-maps-places-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "google-maps-places-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-maps-places-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-maps-places-mcp