Migrating from PleasePrompto/notebooklm-mcp
PleasePrompto/notebooklm-mcp was archived on 10 September 2026. Its
README says so plainly: no updates, no bug fixes, no support, and no further
npm releases. It still works today, and it may keep working for a while — but
it will break the next time Google changes anything, and nobody will fix it.
This page is for its users. It is written by the maintainer of a project that grew out of that one: Gérôme Dexheimer is credited first in our licence, and 17 of his 19 tool names still work here unchanged. We are not neutral, so everything below is checkable.
Is migrating urgent?
No. Nothing breaks on a schedule. The reasons to move are that the upstream service changes under all of us — it was rebranded in July 2026 and its internal API shifts without notice — and that an archived repository cannot absorb that.
What carries over unchanged
17 of the 19 tools keep their exact names, so most agent prompts and scripts need no edit at all:
add_notebook · add_source · ask_question · cleanup_data ·
close_session · get_health · get_library_stats · get_notebook ·
list_notebooks · list_sessions · re_auth · remove_notebook ·
reset_session · search_notebooks · select_notebook · setup_auth ·
update_notebook
The two that changed, because this project generates more than audio:
| His tool | Here |
|---|---|
generate_audio | generate_content with content_type: "audio" |
download_audio | download_content with content_type: "audio" |
What does NOT carry over
Read this before you set anything. One variable exists in both projects with a different meaning:
| Variable | His meaning | Our meaning |
|---|---|---|
NOTEBOOKLM_TRANSPORT | stdio or http — how the client connects | rpc or dom — how we reach Google |
Carrying NOTEBOOKLM_TRANSPORT=http across will not give you an HTTP server;
use HTTP_PORT and run start:http instead.
The rest:
| His variable | Here |
|---|---|
NOTEBOOKLM_PORT / NOTEBOOKLM_HOST | HTTP_PORT / HTTP_HOST |
NOTEBOOKLM_BROWSER_CHANNEL | BROWSER_CHANNEL |
NOTEBOOKLM_PROFILE (tool profiles) | no equivalent — all 40 tools are exposed |
NOTEBOOKLM_DISABLED_TOOLS | no equivalent yet |
NOTEBOOKLM_ACCOUNT | a different multi-account system — see the multi-account guide |
NOTEBOOKLM_AI_MARKER / _PREFIX | no equivalent |
NOTEBOOKLM_FOLLOW_UP_REMINDER | no equivalent |
And one thing he got right that we did not, until recently: his HTTP mode
bound 127.0.0.1 by default. Ours bound every interface with no credentials
until 4.0.0, which was a real vulnerability
(GHSA-p69m-c5rf-g2c3).
It is fixed, and exposing the API now requires NOTEBOOKLM_API_KEY — see
Securing the HTTP API. You should know that history before
trusting this project with a port.
Install
npx @roomi-fields/notebooklm-mcp@latest
You will have to log in again: sessions are tied to a browser profile and cannot be transplanted. Node 22 or newer is required.
Feature comparison
The sections below compare the two projects feature by feature. His column describes v2.0.0, the last release, frozen since 1 May 2026.
TL;DR
- You want a quick MCP server for Claude Code / Cursor / Codex with citations and audio overviews → either works; PleasePrompto v2 is a clean, MCP-spec-first build.
- You need a REST API to call from n8n / Zapier / Make / curl / any non-MCP client → use this project. PleasePrompto v2 ships MCP-over-HTTP (Streamable HTTP transport) which is not a REST API.
- You generate video / infographic / presentation / data table from NotebookLM Studio → use this project. PleasePrompto v2 ships audio only, and the follow-up it deferred them to will not come — the project is archived.
- You run long batches (PhD research, market reports, content pipelines) and need auto-reauth with TOTP → use this project. PleasePrompto v2 explicitly does not store credentials.