Programmatic access to Google NotebookLM — via command-line interface (CLI) or Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.
Programmatic access to Google NotebookLM — via command-line interface (CLI) or Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Exposed over MCP by the notebooklm mcp server, that capability becomes something an assistant can invoke while it works, not something you go and do afterwards.
Use nlm directly in your terminal for scripting, automation, or interactive use:
The server ships on PyPI as notebooklm-mcp-cli, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
Cursor — ~/.cursor/mcp.jsonWindsurf — ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.jsonLatest — The Latest tool exposed by this serverThis sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Notebooklm's toolset — Cursor, Windsurf, Latest — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Cursor | ~/.cursor/mcp.json |
| Windsurf | ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json |
| Latest | The Latest tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"github-com-jacob-bd-notebooklm-mcp-cli-blob-main-docs-mcpgui": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["notebooklm-mcp-cli"]
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
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