Google Drive

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Google Workspace's cloud file storage for sharing folders and documents, connected to Docs, Sheets and Gmail.
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Google Drive API

Sign in
OAuth 2.0. OAuth 2.0; API access on: None required — docs state 'All standard use of the Google Drive API is available at no additional cost' (free within quota; per-minute quotas of 1,000,000 units/project and 325,000 units/user; over-quota charges planned for later in 2026)Source

MCP server

Address
https://drivemcp.googleapis.com/mcp/v1Source
What it is
Google ships and documents an official remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP, OAuth 2.0 with scopes drive.readonly/drive.file). Prerequisites: membership in the Google Workspace Developer Preview Program and a Google Cloud project with Drive API and Drive MCP API enabled. Tools: copy_file, create_file, download_file_content, get_file_metadata, get_file_permissions, list_recent_files, read_file_content, search_files. Third-party community servers also exist (benjamine/gdrive-mcp, piotr-agier/google-drive-mcp on GitHub) and Workato offers a prebuilt Google Drive MCP server.

Checked on 2026-10-10 in the developer documentation.

How to automate Google Drive

API and webhooks

Drive has a REST API (v3) for storage from within your app, and push notifications for resource changes. The Google Workspace Events API lets you subscribe to file activity.

Automation idea: when a client uploads a file to a shared folder, notify the account owner in Slack and log the file in the project.

MCP server

Google publishes official remote MCP servers for Workspace in developer preview. They cover Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Calendar, Chat and People, with permission-based security controls.

Automation idea: connect an assistant and ask it to find the latest signed contract for a client and summarise the key terms.

No-code automation

Check whether Zapier or Make have triggers for new files in a folder before you plan a flow around it.

Automation idea: when a file lands in a "Contracts" folder, create a task to review it and add the link to the CRM record.