Gmail Attachments MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 69 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 9 Jun 2026.
Minimal MCP server for downloading Gmail attachments to disk. Read-only OAuth by default.
Today is the operative word: we check Gmail Attachments 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 gmail-attachments-mcp -- uvx gmail-attachments-mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"gmail-attachments-mcp": {
"args": [
"gmail-attachments-mcp"
],
"command": "uvx"
}
}
}
[mcp_servers.gmail-attachments-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["gmail-attachments-mcp"]
{
"mcpServers": {
"gmail-attachments-mcp": {
"args": [
"gmail-attachments-mcp"
],
"command": "uvx"
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"gmail-attachments-mcp": {
"args": [
"gmail-attachments-mcp"
],
"command": "uvx"
}
}
}
This one needs environment variables set before it will start:
GMAIL_MCP_CREDENTIALS (Path to the Google OAuth client secret JSON. Default: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gmail-attachments-mcp/credentials.json.), GMAIL_MCP_TOKEN (Path to the cached Gmail OAuth refresh token. Default: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gmail-attachments-mcp/token.json.), GMAIL_MCP_DEFAULT_DEST_DIR (Default directory where downloaded attachments are saved when the tool call does not specify dest_dir. Default: ~/Downloads.), GMAIL_MCP_SCOPES (Comma-separated Google OAuth scopes. Default: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly.).
The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.
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