Deploy and Host GSClaw on Railway

GSClaw is an open-source MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that gives AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and VS Code first-party access to your Google Search Console data. Beyond raw queries it ships ready-made SEO analyses: striking-distance keywords, CTR gaps, keyword cannibalization, content decay and period comparisons.

About Hosting GSClaw

GSClaw runs as a single stateless Node.js service built from the repository's Dockerfile, with no database to manage. It signs in to Google with a service account: create one in Google Cloud, enable the Search Console API, download a JSON key, and add the service account's email as a user on each Search Console property. Paste the key into GOOGLE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_JSON; the template generates GSCLAW_ACCESS_TOKEN for you. After deploying, your MCP endpoint is https://YOUR_DOMAIN/mcp. Clients send the token as a bearer header, or use https://YOUR_DOMAIN/mcp/YOUR_TOKEN in clients that cannot set headers, such as claude.ai custom connectors. A /healthz endpoint backs Railway's health checks.

Common Use Cases

Ask your AI assistant for striking-distance keywords and quick SEO wins on any property
Investigate traffic drops with period-over-period and year-over-year comparisons by query and page
Check index status, canonicals and sitemap health with the URL Inspection and Sitemaps APIs
Find pages competing for the same query, or pages that are steadily losing clicks

Dependencies for GSClaw Hosting

A Google Cloud project with the Google Search Console API enabled
A Google service-account key (JSON), added as a user on your Search Console properties
An MCP client that supports remote servers (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code)

Source code and full documentation: https://github.com/tuyakhov/gsclaw

Implementation Details

Connect Claude Code to your deployment:

claude mcp add --transport http gsclaw https://YOUR_DOMAIN/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"

Why Deploy GSClaw on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying GSClaw on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.