mikegcoleman/google-drive-mcp

Google Drive MCP Server

This MCP server integrates with Google Drive to allow listing, reading, and searching over files.

Attribution: This project is based on the Google Drive MCP server from modelcontextprotocol/servers-archived, originally developed by Anthropic, PBC. Licensed under the MIT License.

Components

Tools

• search
  • Search for files in Google Drive
  • Input: query (string): Search query
  • Returns file names and MIME types of matching files

Resources

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

Getting started

1. Create a new Google Cloud project
2. Enable the Google Drive API
3. Configure an OAuth consent screen ("internal" is fine for testing)
4. Add OAuth scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly
5. Create an OAuth Client ID for application type "Desktop App"
6. Download the JSON file of your client's OAuth keys
7. Rename the key file to gcp-oauth.keys.json and place into the root of this repo

Make sure to build the server with either npm run build or npm run watch.

Authentication

To authenticate and save credentials:

1. Run the server with the auth argument: node ./dist auth
2. This will open an authentication flow in your system browser
3. Complete the authentication process
4. Credentials will be saved in the root of this repo (i.e. .gdrive-server-credentials.json)

Usage with Desktop App

To integrate this server with the desktop app, add the following to your app's server configuration:

Docker

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"]
    }
  }
}

NPX

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

Usage with VS Code

For manual installation, add the following JSON block to your User Settings (JSON) file in VS Code. You can do this by pressing Ctrl + Shift + P and typing Preferences: Open User Settings (JSON).

Optionally, you can add it to a file called .vscode/mcp.json in your workspace. This will allow you to share the configuration with others.

Note that the mcp key is not needed in the .vscode/mcp.json file.

NPX

{
  "mcp": {
    "servers": {
      "gdrive": {
        "command": "npx",
        "args": [
          "-y",
          "@mikegcoleman/google-drive-mcp"
        ],
        "env": {
          "GDRIVE_CREDENTIALS_PATH": "/path/to/.gdrive-server-credentials.json"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Docker

{
  "mcp": {
    "servers": {
      "gdrive": {
        "command": "docker",
        "args": [
          "run",
          "-i",
          "--rm",
          "-v",
          "mcp-gdrive:/gdrive-server",
          "-e",
          "GDRIVE_CREDENTIALS_PATH=/gdrive-server/credentials.json",
          "mcp/gdrive"
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

License

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.

Original Work Attribution

This project is based on the Google Drive MCP server from the Model Context Protocol servers archive, originally developed by Anthropic, PBC and licensed under the MIT License.