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NotebookLM MCP MCP Server

Automate Google NotebookLM — Q&A with citations, audio, video, content generation

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Published as @roomi-fields/notebooklm-mcp on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

7 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 5.

Most discussed

content_generate / generate_mind_map return French output — uiLocale defaults to 'fr' and overrides the language parameter

Summary

content_generate and generate_mind_map produce output in French, ignoring the language parameter, because the UI locale is hardcoded to fr by default and leaks into the generation request.

The notebook, the sources and the Google account are all Spanish. Chat answers (notebook_ask) come back in Spanish correctly — only the generated artifacts are affected.

What gave it away

A transient failure surfaced the URL the server actually navigates to:

page.goto: ne

[Read the thread](https://github.com/roomi-fields/notebooklm-mcp/issues/34) · 2026-08-20 · open · external user · 4 comments

### Idle stdio server accumulates CPU time (second half of the --help report)

## Description

The `notebooklm-mcp` binary does not parse CLI arguments. Passing `--help` (or any flag) is silently ignored and the full MCP server starts in stdio mode. When launched by an MCP client that doesn't actively need it, the process stays alive indefinitely consuming significant CPU.

## Steps to reproduce

```bash
# This should show help text but instead starts the full server:
notebooklm-mcp --help

# The process runs indefinitely until killed:
# PID   CPU%  MEM%  TIME
# 749651 37.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/roomi-fields/notebooklm-mcp/issues/30) · 2026-08-18 · open · external user · 4 comments

### headless: false is ignored — auth_setup / login always runs headless

**Bug: server reports "headless": true even after passing headless: false, and even after a full clean reinstall**

**Steps to reproduce:**
1. Installed globally: `npm install -g @roomi-fields/notebooklm-mcp`
2. Configured as an MCP server in Claude Desktop (stdio mode) on Windows 11
3. Installed Chromium via `npx playwright install chromium`
4. Ran the login/auth flow from Claude Desktop (calls the login tool internally)
5. Login attempt fails/times out with no visible browser window ever appea

[Read the thread](https://github.com/roomi-fields/notebooklm-mcp/issues/27) · 2026-08-05 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### create/list/rename broken after NotebookLM → "Gemini Notebook" rebrand (v2.2.1)

After Google's rebrand of NotebookLM to **Gemini Notebook**, several operations break on a valid authenticated session (image `2.2.1`, headless):

1. **`create_notebook` hangs on navigation** — `page.goto(..., { waitUntil: 'networkidle' })` at `src/tools/index.ts:4005` times out (30s). The new SPA polls the network continuously, so `networkidle` never fires. Switching to `waitUntil: 'domcontentloaded'` fixes it. (A first-run onboarding modal — "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook … Let's go" — als

[Read the thread](https://github.com/roomi-fields/notebooklm-mcp/issues/23) · 2026-07-30 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### notebook_list returns success:true with 0 notebooks after the Gemini Notebook rebrand (list rows carry no /notebook/<id> hrefs)

## Summary

Since the Gemini Notebook rebrand (2026-07-16), `notebook_list` / `GET /notebooks/scrape` returns `success: true` with **0 notebooks** on an account that has dozens. This is independent of the account-language issue fixed in #20 — it reproduces with the UI forced to English via `hl=en`.

## Root cause (observed on v2.2.1, list view)

The homepage no longer exposes notebook IDs in the DOM at all:

- The 30 s wait for `a[aria-labelledby*="project-"], button[aria-labelledby*="project-"]

[Read the thread](https://github.com/roomi-fields/notebooklm-mcp/issues/21) · 2026-07-27 · closed · outside contributor · 5 comments

[See all 7 reports Pod holds for NotebookLM MCP](/mcp/notebooklm-mcp/issues).

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