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Google Drive MCP Server

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Google Drive runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 349 installs a week from npm.

Google Drive integration with file operations, folder navigation, search, and sharing

Installs per day peak 609 · avg 91 · -48% w/w
a month agotoday
349
Installs / week
npm · @mcp-z/mcp-drive
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Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
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Nothing serious here today

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

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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.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add mcp-drive -- npx -y @mcp-z/mcp-drive
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-drive": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@mcp-z/mcp-drive"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp-drive]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@mcp-z/mcp-drive"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-drive": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@mcp-z/mcp-drive"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-drive": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@mcp-z/mcp-drive"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID (Google OAuth client ID (required for OAuth authentication modes)), GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET (Google OAuth client secret (optional for public clients)), GOOGLE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_KEY_FILE (Path to service account JSON key file (required for service-account auth mode)), AUTH_MODE (Authentication mode), HEADLESS (Disable browser auto-open, return auth URL instead (true/false)), REDIRECT_URI (OAuth redirect URI (optional, default: ephemeral loopback)), DCR_MODE (Dynamic Client Registration mode), DCR_VERIFY_URL (External verification endpoint URL (required for external DCR mode)), DCR_STORE_URI (DCR client storage URI (for self-hosted DCR mode)), RESOURCE_STORE_URI (Resource store URI for exported files (file://)), PORT (HTTP server port (overrides --port)), BASE_URL (Base URL for HTTP transport (used for OAuth/DCR endpoints and file links)), LOG_LEVEL (Logging level). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Google Drive — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Google Drive?
Google Drive 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 @mcp-z/mcp-drive was installed 349 times last week.
How do I connect Google Drive?
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 @mcp-z/mcp-drive straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Google Drive?
The npm package @mcp-z/mcp-drive was installed 349 times in the last week. Week over week that is -48%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.