Google Sheets MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping.
Google Sheets MCP server: read ranges, append rows, update cells and add tabs.
Today is the operative word: we check Google Sheets MCP every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
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 mcp add google-sheets-mcp -- npx -y @renzo.johnson/google-sheets-mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"google-sheets-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@renzo.johnson/google-sheets-mcp"
]
}
}
}
[mcp_servers.google-sheets-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@renzo.johnson/google-sheets-mcp"]
{
"mcpServers": {
"google-sheets-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@renzo.johnson/google-sheets-mcp"
]
}
}
}
{
"servers": {
"google-sheets-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@renzo.johnson/google-sheets-mcp"
]
}
}
}
Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS (Path to a service account key or authorized_user JSON file. Optional if you use gcloud Application Default Credentials or the OAuth variables), GOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID (OAuth client ID. Set together with the client secret and refresh token), GOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET (OAuth client secret), GOOGLE_OAUTH_REFRESH_TOKEN (OAuth refresh token with the Sheets scopes).
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MCP server for the Google Sheets API: read and write ranges, sheets, formatting, charts, sharing.
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Answers built from our own checks of this server.