How do I install 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 Search Console need an API key?

No required environment variable is listed on this record.

What transport does Search Console use?

Search Console runs locally over stdio.

When was Search Console last checked?

Last checked 2026-11-10. Google Search Console for any MCP client - 30-second login, no Google Cloud project. Read-only.

Search Console MCP server

Power your agent

Add this server

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

Add to Cursor Add to VS Code Run on PlugMCP

Host a copy with our keys and logs.

Local command

npx -y [email protected]

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

shClaude Code

1claude mcp add io.github.sudomichael-search-console-mcp -- npx -y search-console-mcp-server@0.2.2

Run in a terminal.

jsonClaude Desktop

1{2  "mcpServers": {3    "io.github.sudomichael-search-console-mcp": {4      "command": "npx",5      "args": [6        "-y",7        "[email protected]"8      ]9    }10  }11}

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: 0.2.2
Last checked

Tools

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

FAQ

Questions

search-console-mcp

Search Console was built for dashboards. This gives you a conversation instead.

Talk to your Google Search Console from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client.

One sign-in. 30 seconds. No Google Cloud project. No API keys. Tokens never leave your machine.

Docs · npm · Report an issue

 Google Search Console
          │
          ▼
  search-console-mcp        ← runs on your machine, read-only
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          ▼
  Claude / Cursor / any MCP client
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          ▼
  "Why did my traffic drop?"

Every other Search Console MCP server makes you create a Google Cloud project, enable APIs, and wrangle service-account JSON. This one doesn't:

npx search-console-mcp-server login

Your browser opens, you sign in with Google, done. Tokens are minted by Google directly to your machine and stored only in ~/.search-console-mcp/ — nothing passes through anyone's servers.

	This server	Typical GSC MCP setup
Setup	`npx … login`, sign in, done (~30s)	Create a Google Cloud project, enable the API, create OAuth credentials, download JSON, point config at it
Runtime	Node — `npx`, nothing to install	Python + uv/venv
Can it modify your site data?	Impossible — read-only scope by construction	Write scopes with destructive ops "disabled by default"
Analyses	10 built-in (checkup, traffic drop, traffic decay, striking distance, keyword opportunities, cannibalization, title/CTR rewrite, refresh-vs-new, internal links, indexing audit)	Bring your own prompts

What to expect on first run

$ npx search-console-mcp-server login
Opening your browser to sign in with Google…

Connected. Your Search Console is ready — tokens stored in
~/.search-console-mcp (this machine only).

The browser opens the setup page only after Google returns valid credentials and they are saved locally. If token exchange or saving fails, it shows an error instead of a success page. No clone or Google Cloud console is required.

What it feels like

You:  Which of my pages are closest to page one?

Claude:  Three real opportunities, by impressions at stake:

  1. /pricing — "scoreboard app pricing" sits at position 11.2 with
     2,400 impressions/mo and almost no clicks. One position-group
     jump is worth ~90 clicks/mo. The title doesn't contain the
     query; start there.

  2. /templates/trivia — position 12.8 on "trivia scoreboard",
     1,100 impressions/mo. The page ranks but has no H2 matching
     the intent.

  3. /blog/keep-score-online — position 9.4, already page one on
     some days. It's cannibalizing with /features — run
     cannibalization_check before touching it.

(Illustrative output — shape and numbers are what the tools return from your real data.)

Built-in SEO analysts

Ten ready-made analyses ship as MCP prompts — slash-commands in clients that support them. Each one applies real SEO methodology (thresholds, cause classification, CTR benchmarks) and ends with ranked actions, never a data dump:

Prompt	What you get
`seo_checkup`	Trend vs last month, biggest movers, quick wins — and the top 3 moves scored by impact ÷ effort
`traffic_drop`	When the drop started, who lost, and the verdict: rankings, CTR, indexing, demand, or seasonality
`traffic_decay`	Pages quietly bleeding clicks month over month — caught and prioritized before they crater
`striking_distance`	Queries at position 4–20 ranked by estimated click gain, with the one fix per page
`keyword_opportunities`	Every growth lever in one pass: CTR fixes, page-1 pushes, page-2 climbs, emerging demand
`cannibalization_check`	Queries where your own pages fight each other — the winner, one fix per case, recovery estimate
`title_ctr_rewrite`	Pages underperforming their position, with rewritten titles + metas grounded in real queries
`refresh_vs_new`	For any topic: refresh, consolidate, prune, or create new — one verdict from your existing footprint
`internal_links`	A source → target → anchor link plan, justified by query overlap Google already sees
`indexing_audit`	Sitemaps + index status of the pages that matter, triaged by traffic at risk

Setup

1. Sign in (one time):

npx search-console-mcp-server login

2. Add to your MCP client:

Claude Code:

claude mcp add gsc -- npx -y search-console-mcp-server

Claude Desktop / Cursor / anything else (mcpServers config):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gsc": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "search-console-mcp-server"] }
  }
}

3. Ask:

"Which of my pages lost the most clicks this month vs last?"
"Show my queries sitting at position 8–15 with real impressions — what's closest to page 1?"
"Is https://mysite.com/pricing indexed? If not, why?"
"How much Google Discover traffic do I get?"

Tools

Tool	What it does
`list_properties`	Your GSC properties (call first — gives exact `siteUrl` values)
`query_search_analytics`	Clicks / impressions / CTR / position by query, page, date, country, device — filters, pagination, and every traffic source including Google Discover
`compare_periods`	Biggest movers, computed for you: this period vs the prior one, per-page or per-query deltas, sorted by change
`inspect_url`	Google's index status for a URL: indexed or not, why, chosen canonical, last crawl
`inspect_urls`	The same, batched — up to 10 URLs in one call for indexing audits
`list_sitemaps`	Submitted sitemaps with status

Read-only by construction: the Google scope this tool requests (webmasters.readonly) cannot modify your properties, submit sitemaps, or change anything — not "disabled by default." Impossible.

What a compare_periods call hands your model (the model never does date arithmetic):

{ "key": "https://example.com/pricing",
  "current":  { "clicks": 1040, "impressions": 20502, "position": 6.4 },
  "previous": { "clicks": 1070, "impressions": 17176, "position": 5.8 },
  "deltaClicks": -30, "deltaImpressions": 3326, "deltaPosition": 0.6 }

Privacy

Read-only Google scope (webmasters.readonly).
Tokens live in ~/.search-console-mcp/credentials.json on your machine, chmod 600. npx search-console-mcp-server logout deletes them.
No MCP usage telemetry or proxy — Search Console API calls go from your machine directly to Google. After successful login, your browser opens the Percy setup page with only the MCP source and package version in its URL; no credentials, authorization codes, or property data are included.
Prefer your own Google Cloud project? Set SEARCH_CONSOLE_MCP_CLIENT_ID / SEARCH_CONSOLE_MCP_CLIENT_SECRET and it uses yours.

FAQ / Troubleshooting

How can the login work without me creating Google credentials? The CLI ships a Google "Desktop app" OAuth client — the same supported model gcloud and GitHub's CLI use. Your tokens are still minted by Google directly to your machine (PKCE + localhost callback); they never touch our servers. The auth path is in src/auth.ts — read it. Want zero shared anything? Set SEARCH_CONSOLE_MCP_CLIENT_ID / SEARCH_CONSOLE_MCP_CLIENT_SECRET with your own credentials.

Switch Google accounts? npx search-console-mcp-server login again — Google shows the account picker.

"Not signed in" errors in my MCP client? Run the login from the same user account your client runs under; credentials live in ~/.search-console-mcp/.

A property is missing from list_properties. The signed-in Google account needs at least "Restricted" access to it in Search Console.

Why is yesterday missing from the data? Google Search Console data lags ~2–3 days. That's Google, not the tool. History goes back ~16 months.

Revoke access? npx search-console-mcp-server logout deletes local tokens; myaccount.google.com/permissions revokes the grant itself.

Development

git clone https://github.com/sudomichael/search-console-mcp
cd search-console-mcp && npm install
npm run dev      # run from source
npm run build    # bundle to dist/ (no googleapis dependency)
npm test         # mocked login tests; no Google calls or credential writes

The auth path is in src/auth.ts. To verify any privacy claim above, read the source.

Turn the research into a published improvement

The MCP stays free. If you want help preparing one specific page improvement, Percy researches your Search Console evidence, drafts a focused change, and keeps the next action with your saved work. You review and publish it in your own CMS, then verify the change and follow the results.

Percy is a separate paid workspace: 7 days free, no card, then plans from $29/month if you continue. It requires its own Google connection; it does not import local MCP credentials or conversations.

MIT licensed. Issues and PRs welcome. Built by Percy.

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Server facts

Tools

Questions

How do I install Search Console?

Does Search Console need an API key?

What transport does Search Console use?

When was Search Console last checked?

Documentation

search-console-mcp

What to expect on first run

What it feels like

Built-in SEO analysts

Setup

Tools

Privacy

FAQ / Troubleshooting

Development

Turn the research into a published improvement