Google Drive MCP

This entry is useful as a historical reference for a local Drive reader: it searches files and exports Google Workspace documents into model-readable formats. It is not a current Google-hosted Drive MCP and should not be presented as actively maintained production infrastructure.

Connection / transport

stdio (archived local server)

Authentication

Google Cloud OAuth desktop client with drive.readonly scope

Create a Drive API project and OAuth desktop client, place `gcp-oauth.keys.json` in the repository, build, then run `node ./dist auth`. The documented NPX configuration uses `@modelcontextprotocol/server-gdrive` and a credentials path.

Documented setup example. Review the source and credentials before running; this command was not executed for this article.

{"mcpServers":{"gdrive":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","@modelcontextprotocol/server-gdrive"],"env":{"GDRIVE_CREDENTIALS_PATH":"/path/to/.gdrive-server-credentials.json"}}}}

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Proposed workflow: recover a source document

Suggested evaluation, not an observed test result.

1. Authorize a test account with read-only Drive scope and select a non-sensitive folder.
2. Search for a document by title or query and inspect its exported resource.
3. Cite the original Drive file and verify formatting before using the extracted text.

What to inspect: A locally retrievable document trail; no connection or extraction test was run here.

A locally retrievable document trail; no connection or extraction test was run here.

Keep the task inputs, tool calls, output and any errors together when you evaluate. The trial above is a proposal, not a recorded result.