AskWatch Google Search Console MCP

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Free Google Search Console MCP

Ask Search Console in plain language from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Claude Code. Connect your Google account once and we hand you a link on mcp.askwatch.ai. No Cloud project, no credentials.json, nothing to run.

• Read-only access.
• Free, no card.
• Revoke in one click.

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what dropped in the last 28 days?

askwatch-gsc · changes

Clicks are down 11% against the previous 28 days. Three queries account for most of it, and all three lost position rather than impressions.

Clicks

1,284

Impressions

48,910

Avg position

14.2

• invoice template word9.1 → 14.6
• how to invoice a client7.4 → 11.2
• free invoice generator12.0 → 15.3

Period 25 Aug to 21 Sep, data through 19 Sep. Position is averaged across impressions.

Connected in about a minute

Three steps, and none of them involve a Google Cloud console.

1. Step 1
2. Step 2

   Connect Google Search Console

   One consent screen, read-only. We never see your Google password, and the grant is yours to withdraw.
3. Step 3

   Paste your link into your AI client

   Your own address, and the only thing your client needs. Anyone holding it can read the same data, so keep it as you would a password.

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1. 1.Open Settings and go to Connectors.
2. 2.Choose Add custom connector.
3. 3.Paste your link as the server URL and save. https://mcp.askwatch.ai/gsc/your-personal-key Copy

Then ask: How did my site do last month?

No Google Cloud project, no credentials.json

Every Search Console MCP you run yourself starts in a developer console. This one starts with a consent screen.

Running one yourself

What the setup asks of you before the first question.

• Create a Google Cloud project
• Enable the Search Console API on it
• Configure an OAuth consent screen and add yourself as a test user
• Download credentials.json and keep it on your disk
• Run the server yourself, and keep it running

AskWatch, hosted

Free, and the credentials never touch your machine.

• Sign in to AskWatch with your email
• Approve one Google consent screen
• Paste the link, and the server is ours to run

Things worth asking Search Console

Type the question. The client picks the tool, the dates and the thresholds, and answers from your own data.

• “How did my site do last month?” site_overview
• “What dropped in the last 28 days, and on which pages?” changes
• “Where am I ranking 5 to 20 with a click-through rate below what that position usually gets?” find_opportunities
• “Which queries are pulling in two of my pages at once?” find_cannibalization
• “What searches is /pricing actually shown for?” page_queries
• “How much of my traffic is branded?” brand_split
• “Is this URL indexed, and when was it last crawled?” inspect_url

Eleven Search Console tools

Seven that answer a whole question with the analysis already in them, one that passes anything through, three that say what you have.

Tool	What it answers	Kind
site_overview	Clicks, impressions, CTR and average position for a period, each against the period before it.	Question
top	Top queries, pages, countries or devices, optionally narrowed to one country or device.	Question
changes	What gained and what lost between two periods, with rows too small to mean anything filtered out.	Question
find_opportunities	Queries ranking 5–20 whose click-through rate is below what that position usually earns.	Question
find_cannibalization	Queries where more than one of your pages is being shown, and how each one does.	Question
page_queries	What a specific page is actually shown for.	Question
brand_split	Branded against non-branded search, split on the spellings you supply.	Question
query	The Search Analytics query itself, with the dates, dimensions and filters Google takes, for questions the seven scenarios do not shape.	Raw
list_sites	The properties this link can read, and your level of access to each.	Account
inspect_url	Whether a URL is indexed, and what Google saw when it last crawled it.	Account
list_sitemaps	The sitemaps a property has submitted, with their errors and last read.	Account

Numbers you can forward

The reader here is a model, and a model repeats what it is given. So every answer carries the things a careful analyst would have said out loud.

• Every answer names its window

  The period it covers and the last day Google has finished counting, in the answer itself, rather than left for the model to assume.

• The unfinished day is left out

  Search Console closes a day late, and a partial day dragged into a comparison once reported an 11.7% fall in clicks on a site that had fallen 1.1%. We ask Google for finalised data only.

• The method travels with the numbers

  Which window, which threshold, which sort. A model that can read the criteria can repeat the question and explain the answer.

• Google's own caveats come along

  That position is averaged across impressions, and that some queries are withheld for privacy, ride along with the rows instead of sitting in a help page nobody opens.

What it can reach, and what we keep

A link that reads your Search Console is worth being careful with. This is what it can do, and how to end it.

• Read-only, at Google's level

  The grant asks for webmasters.readonly. It cannot submit a sitemap, request indexing, remove a URL or change a property, and not by our choice at request time: the scope itself does not allow it.

• Tokens encrypted, link stored as a hash

  Your Google tokens are encrypted before they are stored. The link is kept as a hash, so what sits in our database is not a working address to anybody who reads it.

• Revoke from either side

  Regenerate the link and the old address stops answering immediately, telling whoever holds it that it was replaced. Or withdraw the grant from your Google account and the whole connection ends, ours included.

• What we keep, and for how long

  The properties your account can read, the answers Google gave (cached from thirty minutes to thirty days, by how old the data is, so one question does not spend your quota twice) and a count of calls per tool per day. Disconnecting drops the grant and the cache read under it.

• Limits guard, they do not ration

  20 calls a minute is the only refusal, and it is there to stop a looping agent from spending your Google quota. The daily thresholds add a notice and a small delay; nothing is ever cut off.

• Not sold, not trained on

  AskWatch's use of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. We do not sell this data and we do not train models on it. What we store and for how long is in our Privacy Policy; the terms of the connection are in clause 1.9.

Frequently asked questions

What is the AskWatch Google Search Console MCP server?

It is a free hosted MCP server that lets an AI client read your Google Search Console data. You connect your Google account once, AskWatch issues you a personal link, and you paste that link into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Claude Code. From then on you ask questions in plain language (how the site did last month, what dropped, which pages compete with each other) and the client answers from your own Search Console data. Access is read-only.

Do I need a Google Cloud project or a credentials.json file?

Which AI clients does it work with?

Is it really free?

What can it change in my Search Console?

What do you store?

How do I revoke access?

Does it work with domain properties?

Why is the last day or two missing?

Are there rate limits?

Other free tools

• AI Visibility Checker

  Check if ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI name your brand, and get your AI visibility score. Open tool

• AI Overview Checker

  See if Google AI Overviews cite your site, which of your pages they pick, and who is cited instead. Open tool

• Perplexity Visibility Tracker

  Track whether Perplexity cites your site and names your brand in its answers. Open tool

• ChatGPT Visibility Tracker

  See if ChatGPT mentions your brand and where you rank in its answers. Open tool

• Gemini Visibility Tracker

  Check if Google Gemini mentions your brand and who it names instead. Open tool

• Google AI Mode Visibility Tracker

  See if Google AI Mode names your brand and which pages it cites. Open tool

• Copilot Visibility Tracker

  See if Microsoft Copilot mentions your brand and cites your site. Open tool

Put Search Console where you already ask questions

One consent screen, one link, and your next question about the site gets a real answer.

• Read-only access.
• Free, no card.
• Revoke in one click.