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Google Drive Files MCP Server

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Google Drive Files MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 59 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 12 Jul 2026.

Minimal MCP server for Google Drive file management and Google Sheets editing.

Installs per day peak 19 · avg 8 · -20% w/w
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12 Jul 2026
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MIT
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Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Google Drive Files MCP 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 google-drive-files-mcp -- uvx google-drive-files-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-drive-files-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "google-drive-files-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.google-drive-files-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["google-drive-files-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-drive-files-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "google-drive-files-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-drive-files-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "google-drive-files-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: GDRIVE_FILES_MCP_CREDENTIALS (Path to the Google OAuth client secret JSON. Default: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/google-drive-files-mcp/credentials.json.), GDRIVE_FILES_MCP_TOKEN (Path to the cached Google OAuth refresh token. Default: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/google-drive-files-mcp/token.json.), GDRIVE_FILES_MCP_SCOPES (Comma-separated Google OAuth scopes. Default: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive (full, required to move files).). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Google Drive Files MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Google Drive Files MCP?
Google Drive Files 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 google-drive-files-mcp was installed 59 times last week.
How do I connect Google Drive Files MCP?
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-drive-files-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Google Drive Files MCP?
The pypi package google-drive-files-mcp was installed 59 times in the last week. Week over week that is -20%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Google Drive Files 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.