Build your own Google Drive MCP server
n8n template #3634Summary
Use templateThis n8n demonstrates how to build a simple Google Drive MCP server to search and get contents of files from Google Drive. This MCP example is based off an official MCP reference implementation which can be found here -https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/gdrive How it works A MCP server trigger is used and connected to 1x Google Drive tool and 1x Custom Workflow tool. The Google Drive tool is set to perform a search on files within our Google Drive folder. The Custom Workflow tool downloads target files found in our drive and converts the binaries to their text representation. Eg. PDFs have only their text contents extracted and returned to the MCP client. How to us
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Help me set up the n8n workflow "Build your own Google Drive MCP server" (https://n8n.io/workflows/3634). It uses: Google Drive, Call n8n Workflow Tool, OpenAI. Import the template JSON into my n8n instance, list every credential I need to create, and walk me through testing it.
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