Connect LM Studio to Google Search Console

How to connect Google Search Console to LM Studio

1. 1

   Check your LM Studio version

   Remote MCP servers arrived in 0.3.17. On an older build the config file exists but a URL-based server will not connect, so update first if you are behind.

2. 2

   Sign in to GSC PAP and copy your token

   Go to gscpap.com, click "Sign in with Google" and approve the read-only access. Choose which sites to grant, then copy the bearer token from the connect page. It is shown once, and you can mint more at app.gscpap.com/account/tokens.

3. 3

   Open mcp.json

   In LM Studio, open the Program tab in the right-hand sidebar, then Install, then Edit mcp.json. The file opens in LM Studio's own editor, so you do not have to hunt for it on disk.

4. 4

   Add the GSC PAP server

   Paste the entry below and replace YOUR_TOKEN with your token. If mcp.json already has servers in it, copy only the gsc-pap entry into the existing mcpServers object rather than pasting a second wrapper.

   jsonCopy

   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "gsc-pap": {
         "url": "https://mcp.gscpap.com/mcp",
         "headers": {
           "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"
         }
       }
     }
   }

5. 5

   Load a tool-capable model and ask

   Load a model that supports tool use, start a chat, and ask something narrow to begin with: "Call list_sites and show me the result." Narrow beats open-ended here, because naming the tool removes the hardest part of the job for a local model. Once that works, move up to "show my top 10 queries by clicks for the last 28 days".

LM Studio MCP setup: common issues

• ·Remote servers need LM Studio 0.3.17 or newer. Older builds only start local MCP servers.
• ·The model has to support tool calling, and small quantized models are often unreliable at choosing between many tools. If the model answers in prose instead of calling a tool, name the tool in your prompt.
• ·A long tool list costs context. On a model with a small context window, ask one question at a time rather than requesting a full report.
• ·"Missing or invalid bearer token" is a token problem, not a model problem. Replace it from app.gscpap.com/account/tokens.
• ·mcp.json holds a live token, so do not copy it into a shared repo or a gist when you ask for help.

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