Colab Drive MCP Server

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Colab Drive MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 138 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 8 Jun 2026.

Synchronize Colab notebook files through Google Drive without executing notebook code.

Installs per day peak 32 · avg 16 · +55% w/w

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8 Jun 2026

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Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Colab Drive MCP 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 colab-drive-mcp -e 'COLAB_MCP_ROOT=<COLAB_MCP_ROOT>' -- uvx colab-drive-mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "colab-drive-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "colab-drive-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "COLAB_MCP_ROOT": "<COLAB_MCP_ROOT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.colab-drive-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["colab-drive-mcp"]
env = { COLAB_MCP_ROOT = "<COLAB_MCP_ROOT>" }

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "colab-drive-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "colab-drive-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "COLAB_MCP_ROOT": "<COLAB_MCP_ROOT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "colab-drive-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "colab-drive-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "COLAB_MCP_ROOT": "<COLAB_MCP_ROOT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Put your own value in place of <COLAB_MCP_ROOT> (Absolute local directory that bounds notebook file access). The author’s registry entry marks it as required.

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: COLAB_MCP_DRIVE_ACCESS (Google Drive access mode: file for minimal access or full for discovering existing notebooks), COLAB_MCP_GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS (Optional path to the local Google OAuth Desktop client JSON), COLAB_MCP_GOOGLE_TOKEN (Optional path to the local Google OAuth token JSON).

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Colab Drive MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Colab Drive MCP?

Colab Drive MCP 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 pypi package colab-drive-mcp was installed 138 times last week.

How do I connect Colab Drive MCP?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls colab-drive-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Colab Drive MCP?

The pypi package colab-drive-mcp was installed 138 times in the last week. Week over week that is +55%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Colab Drive MCP open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.