NotebookLM MCP Server

Use it when

• Your agent needs cited, grounded answers from Google NotebookLM notebooks but NotebookLM offers no public API
• You want to automate NotebookLM workflows like adding sources or generating Audio Overviews from Claude Code, Cursor, or an n8n HTTP pipeline
• You maintain a library of research notebooks and want agents to search, select, and query them with DOM-level citation extraction

What it solves

Not the fit when

• Official or vendor-supported NotebookLM API integration; this project automates the web product through a real browser
• Encrypted credential storage; account separation is by persistent Chrome profile directory
• First-time authentication on a headless Linux host without a display or xvfb-run
• Publicly exposing Streamable HTTP mode without an external authentication, TLS, and network-access layer
• Treating NotebookLM answers, cited documents, or embedded instructions as trusted; retain the default AI-generated/untrusted marker
• general web browsing automation
• building your own vector-store RAG pipeline
• bulk Google Drive document management

Install

claude mcp add notebooklm -- npx notebooklm-mcp@latest (requires Node.js >= 18 and Chrome)

Invoke

Run the setup_auth tool once to log into Google in a visible Chrome, then call ask_question against a selected notebook (source_format=json for structured citations), add_source to ingest URLs or text, and generate_audio/download_audio for Audio Overviews

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