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Google Drive: List shared drives — MCP tool

Google Drive MCP tool: Lists the shared drives the authorized account is a member of.

Technical name: list_shared_drives

What task it solves

I want to see which shared drives I can work with.

Lists shared drives (formerly Team Drives) with their ids, so their contents can be searched and organized.

When to use it

Use it when a file lives in a team space rather than in My Drive: take a drive's id and pass it as drive_id to search_files, or as parent_id to list/create at the drive's root.

What to provide

  • name_contains — optional. Filter by drive name.
  • page_size (1..100), page_token — optional pagination.

What it returns

drives[] with id, name and createdTime, plus nextPageToken.

What changes in Google Drive

Nothing — this is a pure read.

Example request

List my shared drives in Google Drive and find the one for the marketing team.

Errors and limitations

My Drive is not a shared drive and never appears here. An empty list means the account is not a member of any shared drive — it is not proof that none exist in the organization.

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