MCP Tools Reference: drivemcp.googleapis.com

Tool: read_file_content

Call this tool to fetch a natural language representation of a Drive file.

The file content may be incomplete for very large files. The text representation will change over time, so don't make assumptions about the particular format of the text returned by this tool.

Supported Mime Types:

  • application/vnd.google-apps.document
  • application/vnd.google-apps.presentation
  • application/vnd.google-apps.spreadsheet
  • application/pdf
  • application/msword
  • application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
  • application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
  • application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation
  • application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet
  • application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation
  • application/x-vnd.oasis.opendocument.text
  • image/png
  • image/jpeg
  • image/jpg

If the file is not found, try using other tools like search_files to find the file the user is requesting using keywords.

The following sample demonstrate how to use curl to invoke the read_file_content MCP tool.

Curl Request 
curl --location 'https://drivemcp.googleapis.com/mcp' \
--header 'content-type: application/json' \
--header 'accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
--data '{
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "read_file_content",
    "arguments": {
      // provide these details according to the tool MCP specification
    }
  },
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1
}'

Input Schema

Request to read file content.

ReadFileContentRequest

JSON representation 
{
  "fileId": string
}
Fields
fileId

string

Required. The ID of the file to retrieve.

Output Schema

Response to read file content.

ReadFileContentResponse

JSON representation 
{

  "fileContent": string
}
Fields

Union field _file_content.

_file_content can be only one of the following:
fileContent

string

Drive file content returned in text format.

Tool Annotations

Destructive Hint: ❌ | Idempotent Hint: ✅ | Read Only Hint: ✅ | Open World Hint: ❌