Google Maps Places MCP Server

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Google Maps Places runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 34 installs a week from npm. Last commit 9 Sep 2026.

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

Installs per day peak 29 · avg 9 · +26% w/w

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Installs / week

npm · google-maps-places-mcp

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0 open issues

9 Sep 2026

Last commit

0 releases in 90 days

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License

TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Google Maps Places every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add google-maps-places-mcp -- npx -y google-maps-places-mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-maps-places-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "google-maps-places-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.google-maps-places-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "google-maps-places-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-maps-places-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "google-maps-places-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-maps-places-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "google-maps-places-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: MCP_TRANSPORT (Transport type.), GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID (Google OAuth client ID.), GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET (Google OAuth client secret.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Google Maps Places — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Google Maps Places?

Google Maps Places runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package google-maps-places-mcp was installed 34 times last week.

How do I connect Google Maps Places?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls google-maps-places-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Google Maps Places?

The npm package google-maps-places-mcp was installed 34 times in the last week. Week over week that is +26%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Google Maps Places open source?

We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript and 1 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.