Most Search Console clients hand back rows and leave the interpretation to you; here traffic_drop_diagnosis attributes a loss to ranking, CTR or demand, ctr_opportunities compares against an expected-CTR curve, and search_intent_breakdown sorts queries into informational, commercial, transactional, navigational and local buckets. verify_claim is the unusual one: it re-queries the property to test a number you are about to present, against a tolerance percent you set. delete_site and delete_sitemap are both marked destructive in their own descriptions, and the URL Inspection and Indexing calls run sequentially, so batches are quota-bound by design.
A Search Console front end with 40 tools, covering the Search Analytics, URL Inspection, Sitemaps and Indexing APIs for the properties one authenticated account or service account can reach.
- Raw pulls when you know what you want: search_analytics for custom dimensions and filters, advanced_filter_query for up to 50,000 rows, top_queries and top_pages with cross-filtering, and dimension_breakdown for a single dimension.
- Period framing done for you: performance_overview returns a snapshot against the previous period with daily trend, devices and search appearances, compare_periods sets current against previous by page, query, country, device or appearance.
- Diagnoses rather than tables: traffic_drop_diagnosis separates ranking loss from CTR loss, demand decline or a mixed signal; content_decay looks across several equal periods instead of one noisy comparison; anomaly_alerts watches the latest period against the one before it.
- Opportunity finders with thresholds you set: quick_wins for positions 4-15, ctr_opportunities against an expected-CTR curve, cannibalization_check, device_country_opportunities, long_tail_questions and internal_link_opportunities.
- Content briefs backed by the property's own data: page_query_matrix maps pages to the queries driving them, query_page_fit reads one URL's query mix and intent, title_meta_brief builds a refresh brief from high-impression low-CTR queries.
- Index-side work: inspect_url, batch_inspect_urls and index_coverage_summary; list_sitemaps, get_sitemap, submit_sitemap and delete_sitemap; indexing_publish_url, indexing_batch_publish and indexing_get_metadata.
- Reporting and self-checks: multi_site_dashboard compares configured properties, generate_markdown_report writes a report to GSC_REPORT_DIR, and verify_claim re-queries the API to test a numeric claim against a tolerance you give it.
A Search Console property and an account or service account with access to it, plus GSC_AUTH_MODE, GSC_KEY_FILE and GSC_SITE_URL in the environment. add_site, submit_sitemap and delete_sitemap need write scope, and generate_markdown_report writes into GSC_REPORT_DIR.
One command plus a key — npx -y gsc-seo-mcp, then supply credentials