How do I install Google Search Console?

Copy the stdio config for Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or VS Code on this page. It uses the publisher's install, not a PlugMCP proxy.

Does Google Search Console need an API key?

The publisher lists these environment variables: GSC_CLIENT_ID, GSC_CLIENT_SECRET, GSC_REFRESH_TOKEN, GSC_ACCESS_TOKEN, GSC_SITE_URL, GSC_SITE_URLS.

What transport does Google Search Console use?

Google Search Console runs locally over stdio.

When was Google Search Console last checked?

Last checked 2026-11-08. Google Search Console MCP server: 20 read tools, no write tools.

Google Search Console MCP server

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Add this server

The publisher's own command. Not a PlugMCP endpoint.

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Host a copy with our keys and logs.

Local command

npx -y @getmcpads/[email protected]

Credentials from the publisher

GSC_CLIENT_ID — OAuth client ID.
GSC_CLIENT_SECRET — OAuth client secret.
GSC_REFRESH_TOKEN — OAuth refresh token, webmasters.readonly scope.
GSC_ACCESS_TOKEN — Short-lived access token, alternative to the three values above.
GSC_SITE_URL — Default property, https://example.com/ or sc-domain:example.com.
GSC_SITE_URLS — Comma-separated Search Console properties every tool is limited to. Optional in 2.x, required in 3.0.0.

Claude Code has no install link for a local command. Copy the command below and run it in a terminal.

shClaude Code

1GSC_CLIENT_ID=<value> GSC_CLIENT_SECRET=<secret> GSC_REFRESH_TOKEN=<secret> GSC_ACCESS_TOKEN=<secret> GSC_SITE_URL=<value> GSC_SITE_URLS=<value> claude mcp add com.getmcpads-google-search-console -- npx -y @getmcpads/google-search-console-mcp-server@2.1.1

Run in a terminal.

jsonClaude Desktop

1{2  "mcpServers": {3    "com.getmcpads-google-search-console": {4      "command": "npx",5      "args": [6        "-y",7        "@getmcpads/[email protected]"8      ],9      "env": {10        "GSC_CLIENT_ID": "<value>",11        "GSC_CLIENT_SECRET": "<secret>",12        "GSC_REFRESH_TOKEN": "<secret>",13        "GSC_ACCESS_TOKEN": "<secret>",14        "GSC_SITE_URL": "<value>",15        "GSC_SITE_URLS": "<value>"16      }17    }18  }19}

claude_desktop_config.json

Local · npmPublisher installStep-by-step: add this in Claude

Remote URL or a command on your machine? How the two installs differ

Run on PlugMCP

Host a copy with our keys and logs.

A new server you create. It is not this listing's official endpoint. Use the publisher install when you want their URL and their credentials.

Launch

Server facts

Local

Transport: stdio
Version

Tools

No tool list yet. Remote servers get one after the first health check.

FAQ

Questions

Google Search Console MCP server

Bring your search performance into the conversation.

Investigate queries, pages, indexing and sitemaps through a read-only MCP server.

Watch the film · What's new · Install · Tool reference · Try hosted getmcpads

Play the 45-second film

The film shows hosted getmcpads with sample data. Its MCP Apps, from creative galleries and alerts to Google Sheets exports and bulk launches, belong to the hosted product. This repository provides the standalone native API tools.

20 read tools · Read-only by design.

Run locally with your own platform credentials and a client that supports stdio MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code or Cursor. Your requests go directly to the platform. For managed connections, including supported ChatGPT setups, use the hosted option.

What's new

v2.0.1: Native tools and security update · September 20, 2026

Bound automatic pagination to four pages, 100,000 rows and a 30-second total deadline.
Expose pagination and truncation diagnostics while preserving hourly data and native metadata.
Remove provider error bodies from logs and errors; bound search-type comparison fan-out.
Require Node.js 22.12 or newer and check Node 22/24 in CI.
Update vulnerable dependencies and regenerate the MCP catalog.

Full changelog · Source synchronization details · All releases

Upgrade notes

Requires Node.js 22.12 or newer. CI covers Node 22 and 24. Version 2.0.1 drops Node 18 and 20 support. Hosted creative integrations and MCP Apps UI are outside this release.

Install this release

This is a GitHub source release. npm and MCP Registry versions are published separately. The commands below select this exact version; unpinned npx examples later in this document select the version currently available on npm.

git clone --branch v2.0.1 --depth 1 https://github.com/get-mcp-ads/google-search-console-mcp-server.git
cd google-search-console-mcp-server
npm ci
npm run build

Configure your MCP client to run node with the absolute path to dist/cli.js and the platform credentials documented below.

Prefer a managed connection? Use Google Search Console with hosted getmcpads. Connect your account, select the data your assistant may access and use the hosted MCP connection. See the site for current features and plans.

What you get


20 read tools	Search Analytics, sites, sitemaps, URL Inspection, and analyses built on top of them
SEO analyses, not just an API wrapper	Cannibalisation detection, query clustering, wins and losses between periods, indexation watchlists, large-site sampling plans
7 resources	Live catalogues the model can read: metrics, dimensions, filters, compatibility rules, 8 workflow recipes, read-only playbooks
Quota guardrails	Every URL Inspection call is capped at 10 URLs, so one exploratory question cannot burn a day of quota
No writes at all	Not a flag, a property of the code. See below

What it does beyond fetching rows

Search Console answers questions about rows. Most real questions are about change: which queries did we lose, which pages compete for the same term, is indexing drifting.

These tools do that work rather than leaving it to the model:

Tool	Question it answers
`gsc_detect_cannibalization`	Which pages compete for the same query
`gsc_find_losses_gains`	What we won and lost between two periods
`gsc_cluster_queries`	Which queries belong to the same intent
`gsc_compare_search_types`	How web, image, video and news differ
`gsc_analyze_search_appearance_trends`	How rich results evolve
`gsc_indexation_watchlist`	Which URLs changed indexing verdict
`gsc_plan_large_site_sampling`	Which URLs to inspect, when you cannot inspect them all

One thing to know before you trust a number

Search Console returns a top N, not a site total.

When you query with a dimension such as query or page, the API returns the highest ranked rows up to your row limit, ordered by clicks. Summing the clicks of those rows does not give you the site total: the long tail is missing, and on a large site it can be most of the traffic.

To get a real total, query without dimensions. To compare periods, compare like with like: same dimensions, same row limit, same search type.

gsc_query_search_analytics reports what it actually returned, and gsc_validate_query checks a combination before it runs. But the arithmetic mistake is yours to avoid, and it is the most common one in Search Console analysis.

Two other limits worth carrying in your head:

Roughly 16 months of history. Anything older is gone, not slow.
Data settles over about three days. gsc_get_data_freshness tells you what is final.

Read-only, and why it stays that way

There are no write tools, and no environment variable that adds any. The Search Console API can submit and delete sitemaps, add and remove properties, and request indexing. This server exposes none of that.

The scope it asks for reflects that: webmasters.readonly, not webmasters. Even if the model tried, the token cannot write.

Our ad platform servers, where writes make sense, do have them, guarded by a mandatory preview: Meta Ads · Google Ads · TikTok Ads

The hosted version at getmcpads.com keeps the same rule: Search Console stays read-only there too.

Getting credentials

Three values, obtained once.

1. OAuth client

In a Google Cloud project, enable the Google Search Console API, then create an OAuth client under APIs & Services → Credentials. Choose Desktop app for local use. Note the client ID and client secret.

2. Refresh token

Run the OAuth consent flow once, signed in as a Google account that owns or can read your properties, and keep the refresh token. Request webmasters.readonly and nothing more.

📖 Google OAuth for installed apps

The refresh token does not expire. Use an OAuth client dedicated to this server so you can revoke it on its own.

For a quick trial you can set GSC_ACCESS_TOKEN to a short-lived token instead, but it expires within the hour and is useless for daily work.

If setting up an OAuth client is more than you want to do for one property, getmcpads.com handles the consent flow for you and gives you the same tools behind a hosted endpoint.

3. Site URL, optional

Set GSC_SITE_URL to avoid passing it on every call. Both property forms work:

Property type	Value
URL-prefix	`https://example.com/` (the trailing slash matters)
Domain	`sc-domain:example.com`

List what you can reach with gsc_list_sites, and run gsc_health_check as your first call. It verifies the credentials without printing any secret.

Setup

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "search-console": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@getmcpads/google-search-console-mcp-server"],
      "env": {
        "GSC_CLIENT_ID": "your-client-id",
        "GSC_CLIENT_SECRET": "your-client-secret",
        "GSC_REFRESH_TOKEN": "your-refresh-token"
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. Ask it: "which queries did we lose last month?".

Claude Code

claude mcp add search-console --env GSC_CLIENT_ID=... --env GSC_CLIENT_SECRET=... --env GSC_REFRESH_TOKEN=... -- npx -y @getmcpads/google-search-console-mcp-server

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json in your project, same shape as the Claude Desktop config above.

From source

git clone https://github.com/get-mcp-ads/google-search-console-mcp-server.git
cd google-search-console-mcp-server
npm install && npm run build
cp .env.example .env   # then fill in your credentials
npm start

Configuration

Variable	Default	Meaning
`GSC_CLIENT_ID`	none	OAuth client ID
`GSC_CLIENT_SECRET`	none	OAuth client secret
`GSC_REFRESH_TOKEN`	none	From the consent flow
`GSC_ACCESS_TOKEN`	none	Alternative to the three above, expires within the hour
`GSC_SITE_URL`	none	Optional default property
`LOG_LEVEL`	`info`	`debug`, `info`, `warn`, `error`

Either the three OAuth values, or GSC_ACCESS_TOKEN. The server refuses to start with neither.

npm run doctor

Tools

Every tool is listed below. See server-card.json for complete parameter and output schemas.

Tool	Purpose
`gsc_list_sites`	List all Google Search Console properties accessible with the current credentials.
`gsc_get_site`	Get one Search Console property and its exact permission level (read-only sites.get).
`gsc_health_check`	Verify Google Search Console read-only authentication, visible properties, configured default site, and permission levels without exposing tokens.
`gsc_query_search_analytics`	Query Google Search Console Search Analytics.
`gsc_inspect_url`	Inspect a URL for Google indexing status, crawl info, mobile usability, AMP, and rich results.
`gsc_bulk_inspect_urls`	Inspect multiple URLs with a conservative sequential limit and normalized URL Inspection results.
`gsc_list_sitemaps`	List sitemaps submitted for a Search Console property, including processing status and submitted/indexed counts.
`gsc_get_sitemap`	Get one submitted sitemap by full feed path, including type, fetch state, warnings/errors, and submitted/indexed content totals.
`gsc_get_sitemap_health`	Return an enriched read-only sitemap health summary with status totals, submitted/indexed content counts, warnings, and errors.
`gsc_compare_search_types`	Compare performance across Search Console search types: web, image, video, news, discover, and Google News.
`gsc_get_data_freshness`	Detect the most recent date with Search Analytics data by querying recent daily rows.
`gsc_monitor_indexation_freshness`	Read-only monitoring snapshot for Search Analytics freshness, sitemap indexation totals, and an optional small URL Inspection sample.
`gsc_track_sitemap_deltas`	Read-only sitemap delta tracker.
`gsc_analyze_search_appearance_trends`	Analyze structured data and rich-result trend signals via the Search Analytics searchAppearance dimension when GSC exposes it.
`gsc_plan_large_site_sampling`	Build a read-only URL Inspection sampling plan for large sites from sitemap risk signals and Search Analytics page performance.

URI	Contents
`gsc://manifest`	What this server exposes, and which tool to run first
`gsc://metrics`	The 8 Search Analytics metrics, raw and derived
`gsc://dimensions`	The 7 dimensions and where they are valid
`gsc://filters`	The 5 filter operators and their accepted values
`gsc://compatibility`	Which dimensions work with which search types and data states
`gsc://recipes`	8 step-by-step workflows
`gsc://p2-readonly-playbooks`	Monitoring playbooks and their invariants

Security

The client secret and refresh token are never logged, at any log level, or written to disk.
Four hosts are contacted, and only four: searchconsole.googleapis.com and www.googleapis.com for the API, oauth2.googleapis.com and accounts.google.com for OAuth. A test fails the build if a fifth host appears in the source.
No fetch follows a redirect. Every outbound call sets redirect: "error", so a redirect cannot forward a bearer token or client secret to another host. A test fails the build if any fetch omits this.
The scope is webmasters.readonly. The token itself cannot write.
No telemetry. The server makes no network call other than to Google.

Full policy: SECURITY.md.

Looking for a managed, multi-platform version?

Try hosted Search Console if you want to use this source without operating a local server. getmcpads also connects advertising, Search Console and GA4 through one MCP URL. Source availability and plan limits are listed on the site; connecting an account is still required.

Follow the Search Console connection guide.
Select the account or property your assistant may read.
Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Codex.
Try a read-only review: “Find which pages and queries account for a change in organic clicks. State missing data and do not change anything.”

See the current hosted tool catalogue and pricing before choosing a paid plan. This Apache 2.0 adapter remains independently useful with your own credentials.

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md. Please read SECURITY.md before reporting anything security-related.

Licence

Apache License 2.0. See also NOTICE.

Google and Google Search Console are trademarks of Google LLC. This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google LLC. It is an independent client of a public API.

MCP contracts and desktop bundle

Every tool declares read/write annotations, parameter descriptions and a structured output schema. Successful calls expose the payload as structuredContent.result; errors retain isError: true. The generated server card contains definitions only.

Run npm run bundle -- /path/to/output to build a .mcpb desktop bundle from the current catalog. Credentials are entered locally during installation. This server remains read-only.

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Maintained by Emmanuel at getmcpads. Questions: [email protected].

Add this server

Host a copy with our keys and logs.

Server facts

Tools

Questions

How do I install Google Search Console?

Does Google Search Console need an API key?

What transport does Google Search Console use?

When was Google Search Console last checked?

Documentation

Google Search Console MCP server

Bring your search performance into the conversation.

What's new

Upgrade notes

Install this release

What you get

What it does beyond fetching rows

One thing to know before you trust a number

Read-only, and why it stays that way

Getting credentials

1. OAuth client

2. Refresh token

3. Site URL, optional

Setup

Claude Desktop

Claude Code

Cursor

From source

Configuration

Tools

Security

Looking for a managed, multi-platform version?

Contributing

Licence

MCP contracts and desktop bundle

More from getmcpads