Google Docs to MCP: Drive Google Docs from any AI Agent

💡 No install? Use cloud.anythingmcp.com directly. Sign in, click Connectors → Google Docs, paste your credentials, mint an MCP API key and you're done. No Docker, no git clone, no local server.

Google Docs

Let your AI work with Google Docs: read a document as plain text or as headings and paragraphs with positions, create new documents, append or insert text and replace text everywhere, for example to fill a template. Personal Google accounts and Google Workspace.

Setup

1. Open console.cloud.google.com, pick or create a project, then go to APIs & Services → Library and enable the Google Docs API.
2. Open APIs & Services → OAuth consent screen. Choose Internal if you are on Google Workspace (the simplest option), otherwise External. For External, set the publishing status to In production: while the app is in Testing, Google revokes its refresh tokens after 7 days and the connector stops working every week. For your own account you can click through the "unverified app" warning.
3. Open APIs & Services → Credentials → Create credentials → OAuth client ID, choose the application type Web application and add the authorized redirect URI https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/api/mcp-oauth/callback. If you host AnythingMCP yourself, enter https://your-anythingmcp-host/api/mcp-oauth/callback instead.
4. Paste the client ID into GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID and the client secret into GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET, then install the connector.
5. On the connector page, click Authorize with Provider and sign in with the Google account whose documents the AI should use. The refresh token is stored encrypted and access tokens are renewed automatically.

One Google client for all Google connectors: the same Cloud project and OAuth client can serve every Google connector: Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Tasks, Search Console, Analytics and Ads. Enable each API in that project, reuse the same client ID and secret, and authorize each connector once. Each one asks only for its own permissions.

Finding a document: paste the document's link into the chat; its id is the long string in https://docs.google.com/document/d/<id>/edit. To find documents by name, add the Google Drive connector as well. The connector reads a document's first tab; very long documents or documents with several tabs read better through the Google Drive connector. Replacing text everywhere is the reliable way to fill a template with placeholders such as [Customer name].

Permissions: the connector asks for https://www.googleapis.com/auth/documents: read and edit every document your account can open. It does not include Google Drive, so the connector cannot list, search, share or delete documents.

Read-only setup: change the scope in the connector's OAuth settings to https://www.googleapis.com/auth/documents.readonly, authorize again and disable gdocs_create_document, gdocs_append_text, gdocs_insert_text and gdocs_replace_all_text.

Switched off at install: gdocs_batch_update, which accepts any Docs API request, including deleting content. Turn it on only if the AI needs it.

Common errors: 401 means the authorization expired or was revoked (always after 7 days while the consent screen is in Testing): click Authorize with Provider again. 403 PERMISSION_DENIED means the account cannot open or edit that document, or the scope is read-only; 403 "Docs API has not been used in project" means the Google Docs API is not enabled in the Cloud project. 404 means the id is wrong or belongs to another file type, such as a Sheet or a Word file uploaded to Drive.

The connector does not handle comments and suggestions, does not share, move or delete documents (the Google Drive connector does that) and does not edit Word files stored in Drive.

Prerequisites: GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID, GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET

Install the connector locally

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d

Open http://localhost:3000/connectors/store, pick Google Docs and paste in the env vars listed under Prerequisites.

Available tools

Example prompts

• "Read these meeting notes and list every action item with its owner."
• "Fill in the contract template: replace [Customer name] with Acme GmbH and [Start date] with 1 November 2026."
• "Add a Next steps section at the end of the project brief."
• "Create a new document called Onboarding checklist and write a first draft in it."

Next steps

• Connect to Claude
• Connect to ChatGPT