search-console-mcp

A read-only Model Context Protocol server for Google Search Console. Point it at a Search Console property and query your search-performance data, sitemaps, and URL index status from any MCP client (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, …).

It exists to read and analyze Search Console data — nothing else. It cannot add sites, submit sitemaps, request indexing, or change anything.

Read-only by design

Read-only is enforced at three independent layers, so there is no single point of failure:

1. OAuth scope. Credentials are always downscoped to https://www.googleapis.com/auth/webmasters.readonly. Google's API rejects any write call made with this scope — regardless of the signed-in account's role. If you mint your credentials with this scope (the helper below does), even a leaked credential file cannot modify your account.
2. Tool surface. The server only implements read methods. There is no code path that mutates Search Console.
3. Network surface. The only host contacted is googleapis.com, via Google's official client libraries. No telemetry, no third-party endpoints.

Dependencies are limited to the official mcp, google-api-python-client, and google-auth packages.

Tools

Tool	What it returns
list_sites	Properties the account can access, with permission level
search_analytics	Performance report: clicks, impressions, CTR, position, grouped by query / page / country / device / date / search appearance, with filters
list_sitemaps	Sitemaps submitted for a property
get_sitemap	Index status and errors for one sitemap
inspect_url	URL Inspection: index coverage, last crawl, canonical, mobile usability (tight per-property quota)

Setup

1. Enable the API

In a Google Cloud project, enable the Google Search Console API.

2. Mint read-only credentials

Create an OAuth Desktop app client in that project and download its JSON. Then:

pip install "search-console-mcp[auth]"   # provides google-auth-oauthlib

python scripts/mint_token.py \
    --client-secrets /path/to/oauth_client.json \
    --output /path/to/gsc-readonly-credentials.json

A browser opens — sign in as the account that has access to the Search Console properties you want to read. Viewer / Restricted access is enough. The output file is an authorized-user credential limited to the read-only scope.

A service-account key also works (no minting step) — just set GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS to it and add the service-account email as a user on each property. The OAuth path above is recommended for personal use.

3. Register the server

uvx runs it without an explicit install:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "search-console": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["--from", "search-console-mcp", "search-console-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS": "/path/to/gsc-readonly-credentials.json"
      }
    }
  }
}

See .mcp.json.example. Restart your MCP client, and the five tools above become available.

Develop

uv sync
uv run search-console-mcp   # starts the stdio server

License

MIT — see LICENSE.