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Do I need a Google Cloud project to use GSC PAP?

No. The whole reason GSC PAP exists is to remove the Google Cloud setup step. When you sign in with Google through gscpap.com, you grant permission to our OAuth client (which we registered with Google one time). We then call the Search Console API on your behalf using your refresh token. You never touch the Google Cloud Console.

If you were running an MCP server yourself, you would need to create a GCP project, enable the Search Console API, create OAuth 2.0 credentials, download a JSON file, distribute it across machines, manage refresh token rotation, and re-authenticate every time the token expires. That setup typically takes 30-45 minutes the first time and breaks in confusing ways when something rotates.

GSC PAP handles all of that for you. You sign in with Google, copy a single bearer token, paste it into Claude Desktop, Cursor, or Claude Code, and start asking questions. Total time from first visit to first query is around 60 seconds.

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