Google Drive Connector

Google Drive is Google's cloud storage for work and home. This component allows creating, copying, downloading, updating, listing, and deleting files stored in a Google Drive account.

API Documentation

This component was built using the Google Drive API v3

Connections

OAuth2

OAuth2 Connection

The Google Drive component authenticates requests through the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) OAuth 2.0 service. A GCP OAuth 2.0 app is required for the integration to authenticate and perform Google Drive tasks on behalf of users.

Prerequisites

• A Google Developer account (sign up at https://console.cloud.google.com/)

Setup Steps

To create a Google Drive OAuth 2.0 app:

1. Open the Google Drive API console at https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/api/drive.googleapis.com
2. Click CREATE PROJECT to create a new GCP project, or select an existing project.
3. Enable the Google Drive API for the project by clicking ENABLE.
4. On the sidebar, select Credentials.
5. Configure the OAuth 2.0 Consent Screen (the page that asks "Do you want to allow (Your Company) to access Google Drive on your behalf?"). Click CONFIGURE CONSENT SCREEN.
   1. Choose a User Type of External so the app will be available to customers.
   2. Fill out the OAuth consent screen with an app name (company or product name), support email, app logo, domain, etc.
   3. Domains can be ignored for now.
   4. On the next page, add the scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.
   5. Enter some test users for testing purposes. The app will only work for those testing users until it is "verified" by Google. When ready for verification (Google verifies privacy policy statement, etc), click PUBLISH APP on the OAuth consent screen. This will allow customers to authorize the integration to access their Google Drive.
6. Once the "Consent Screen" is configured, open the Credentials page from the sidebar again.
7. Click +CREATE CREDENTIALS and select OAuth client ID.
   1. Under Application type select Web application.
   2. Under Authorized redirect URIs enter the OAuth 2.0 callback URL: https://oauth2.integrations.acme.com/callback
   3. Click CREATE.
8. Copy the Client ID and Client Secret that are generated.

Configure the Connection

• Enter the Client ID and Client Secret from the OAuth app credentials.
• For Scopes, use the default Google Drive scopes:

  https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.activity.readonly

  • Refer to Google's OAuth 2.0 Scopes for Google APIs for additional scope information.

App Verification

Google requires OAuth apps that request access to user data to pass a verification review before being deployed at scale. This process ensures the app complies with Google's API Services User Data Policy, accurately represents its functionality, and handles user data responsibly.

Google OAuth apps pass through three stages before they are ready for production use.

Testing (unpublished): The app is only accessible to users manually added as test users in the OAuth consent screen. Up to 100 test users are allowed. All other users receive an error. This is the expected state during initial development.

Published, unverified: After publishing the app, all Google users can authenticate. However, for restricted scopes, users see a "This app isn't verified" warning. Users can proceed by clicking Advanced → Go to [app name] (unsafe), but this warning reduces trust and may be blocked by organizations with strict Google Workspace policies.

Verified: Google has reviewed and approved the app. No warning is shown. Verification is required before deploying to production users.

Publishing the App

Publishing is required before any users outside the test list can authenticate:

1. In the Google Cloud Console, navigate to APIs & Services → OAuth consent screen
2. Click PUBLISH APP and confirm

Requesting Verification

This component uses restricted scopes (https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive). Restricted scopes require a security assessment in addition to standard sensitive scope verification:

1. On the OAuth consent screen, click Prepare for verification
2. Provide a privacy policy URL, authorized domain, and app logo
3. Arrange a security assessment with a Google-approved assessor. This is required for restricted scopes.
4. Submit for review. Restricted scope reviews can take longer than sensitive scope reviews.

Refer to Google's OAuth consent screen documentation for the full verification requirements.

This connection uses OAuth 2.0, a common authentication mechanism for integrations. Read about how OAuth 2.0 works here.

Input	Comments	Default
Scopes	Space delimited listing of scopes. https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/oauth2/scopes#drive	https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.activity.readonly
Client ID	The Client ID from the Google Cloud Console. Navigate to APIs & Services > Credentials to find this value.
Client Secret	The Client Secret from the Google Cloud Console. This value is shown when creating OAuth 2.0 credentials.

Triggers

Drive Activity

Retrieves existing and ongoing Google Drive activity. Load history once, check for activity on a schedule, or both. By default yields activity on personal 'My Drive'. For activity on a shared drive, specify a shared drive's folder's 'Folder ID'.

Input	Comments	Default
Trigger Events	The event types the trigger will poll.
File ID	Return activities for this Drive item.
Folder or Drive ID	Return activities for this Drive or folder, plus all children and descendants. You may supply an array of drive or folder IDs.
Consolidation Strategy	Details on how to consolidate related actions that make up the activity. If not set, then related actions aren't consolidated.
Look-back Date	The date the initial sync starts from, in YYYY-MM-DD format. Cannot be a future date. Leave empty to start from the first recurrence with no backfill. When set, the initial sync seeds each file modified on or after this date once, then hands off to incremental polling.
Connection	The Connection to use for Google Drive authorization.

New and Updated Files

Retrieves existing and ongoing files for a specified Google Drive, or all drives if omitted. Load history once, check for changes on a schedule, or both.

Input	Comments	Default
Look-back Date	The date the initial sync starts from, in YYYY-MM-DD format. Cannot be a future date. Leave empty to start from the first recurrence with no backfill. When set, the initial sync seeds each file modified on or after this date once, then hands off to incremental polling.
Connection	The Connection to use for Google Drive authorization.
Drive ID	The ID of a shared drive to search for the file in. If not provided, the search will be performed across all drives. Enter 'my-drive' to search only "My Drive".

Push Notification Webhook

Receive and validate webhook requests from Google Drive for webhooks you configure.

Actions

Copy File

Copy a file by file id

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for Google Drive authorization.
File ID	A unique opaque ID for each file. File IDs are stable throughout the life of the file, even if the file name changes.
File Name	The name of the file.
Folder ID	A unique opaque ID for each folder.

Create File

Create a new file with content and metadata

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for Google Drive authorization.
Parent Folder ID	A unique opaque ID for each folder.
File Content	The binary or text body of the file. Images, videos, text, and PDF files can be stored in Google Drive.
File Name	The name of the file.
Fields	Fields to return in the response. For list operations, wrap field names in files(), e.g., files(id,name,mimeType). If unspecified, returns all fields. See Google's fields parameter documentation.	*

Create Folder

Create a directory file

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for Google Drive authorization.
Folder Name	The name of the folder.
Parent Folder ID	A unique opaque ID for each folder.

Create Webhook for Drive

Create a webhook to receive notifications of changes with a Google Drive

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for Google Drive authorization.
Drive ID	The ID of a shared drive to search for the file in. If not provided, the search will be performed across all drives. Enter 'my-drive' to search only "My Drive".
Endpoint	The URL where webhook notifications will be sent.
Expiration Time	The time at which the webhook will expire as a UNIX timestamp in milliseconds. Defaults to 1 hour from now, and can be set to a maximum of 1 day from now.

Create Webhook for File or Folder

Create a webhook to receive notifications of changes for a file or folder

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for Google Drive authorization.
File or Folder ID	The unique identifier of the file or folder to watch for changes.
Endpoint	The URL where webhook notifications will be sent.
Expiration Time	The time at which the webhook will expire as a UNIX timestamp in milliseconds. Defaults to 1 hour from now, and can be set to a maximum of 1 day from now.

Delete File

Delete a file by file id

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for Google Drive authorization.
File ID	A unique opaque ID for each file. File IDs are stable throughout the life of the file, even if the file name changes.
Fields	Fields to return in the response. For list operations, wrap field names in files(), e.g., files(id,name,mimeType). If unspecified, returns all fields. See Google's fields parameter documentation.	*

Delete Webhook

Stop a webhook channel from sending notifications

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for Google Drive authorization.
Webhook ID	The channel ID returned when the webhook was created.
Resource ID	The resource ID returned when the webhook was created.

Empty Trash

Empty the trash of deleted files

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for Google Drive authorization.

Get About

Gets information about the user's Drive and system capabilities

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for Google Drive authorization.
Fields	Fields to return in the response. For list operations, wrap field names in files(), e.g., files(id,name,mimeType). If unspecified, returns all fields. See Google's fields parameter documentation.	*

Get Current User

Get the information and metadata of the user that is currently logged in

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for Google Drive authorization.

Get File

Gets a file's metadata and content by ID.

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for Google Drive authorization.
File ID	A unique opaque ID for each file. File IDs are stable throughout the life of the file, even if the file name changes.
Preferred Export Type	The MIME type to export the file as. If not compatible, the first available export type will be used. Only required for non-binary files.

Get File Metadata

Gets a file's metadata by ID.

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for Google Drive authorization.
File ID	A unique opaque ID for each file. File IDs are stable throughout the life of the file, even if the file name changes.
Fields	A comma separated list of fields to return in the response.

List Changes

List changes made to files in Google Drive since the last time this step ran (up to 1000)

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for Google Drive authorization.
Drive ID	The ID of a shared drive to search for the file in. If not provided, the search will be performed across all drives. Enter 'my-drive' to search only "My Drive".

List Drives

List all drives

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for Google Drive authorization.

List Files

Lists all available files and directories

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for Google Drive authorization.
Drive ID	The ID of a shared drive to search for the file in. If not provided, the search will be performed across all drives. Enter 'my-drive' to search only "My Drive".
Fetch All	When true, automatically fetches all pages of results using pagination.	false
Pagination	Page-size and page-token controls for paging through results.
Page Size	The maximum number of results to return. Must be between 1 and 1000.	20
Page Token	Specify the pagination token that's returned by a previous request to retrieve the next page of results
Fields	Fields to return in the response. For list operations, wrap field names in files(), e.g., files(id,name,mimeType). If unspecified, returns all fields. See Google's fields parameter documentation.	*
Query	A query string to filter results. See Google's documentation for query syntax.

List File's Export Types

List the available export types of a file by ID.

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for Google Drive authorization.
File ID	A unique opaque ID for each file. File IDs are stable throughout the life of the file, even if the file name changes.

List Folders

Lists all available directories

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for Google Drive authorization.
Drive ID	The ID of a shared drive to search for the file in. If not provided, the search will be performed across all drives. Enter 'my-drive' to search only "My Drive".
Fetch All	When true, automatically fetches all pages of results using pagination.	false
Pagination	Page-size and page-token controls for paging through results.
Page Size	The maximum number of results to return. Must be between 1 and 1000.	20
Page Token	Specify the pagination token that's returned by a previous request to retrieve the next page of results
Fields	Fields to return in the response. For list operations, wrap field names in files(), e.g., files(id,name,mimeType). If unspecified, returns all fields. See Google's fields parameter documentation.	*
Folder ID	A unique opaque ID for each folder.

Move File

Move a file by file ID

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for Google Drive authorization.
File ID	A unique opaque ID for each file. File IDs are stable throughout the life of the file, even if the file name changes.
Folder ID	A unique opaque ID for each folder.

Query Drive Activity

Query past activity in Google Drive.

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for Google Drive authorization.
File ID	Return activities for this Drive item.
Folder or Drive ID	Return activities for this Drive or folder, plus all children and descendants.
Fetch All	When true, automatically fetches all pages of results using pagination.	false
Page Token	Specify the pagination token that's returned by a previous request to retrieve the next page of results
Filter	The filtering for items returned from this query request.
Consolidation Strategy	Details on how to consolidate related actions that make up the activity. If not set, then related actions aren't consolidated.

Raw Request

Send raw HTTP request to Google Drive

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for Google Drive authorization.
URL	Input the path only (/files), The base URL is already included (https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3). For example, to connect to https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files, only /files is entered in this field.
Method	The HTTP method to use.
Data	The HTTP body payload to send to the URL.
Form Data	The Form Data to be sent as a multipart form upload.
File Data	File Data to be sent as a multipart form upload.
File Data File Names	File names to apply to the file data inputs. Keys must match the file data keys above.
Query Parameter	A list of query parameters to send with the request. This is the portion at the end of the URL similar to ?key1=value1&key2=value2.
Header	A list of headers to send with the request.
Response Type	The type of data you expect in the response. You can request json, text, or binary data.	json
Timeout	The maximum time that a client will await a response to its request
Retry Delay (ms)	The delay in milliseconds between retries. This is used when 'Use Exponential Backoff' is disabled.	0
Retry On All Errors	If true, retries on all erroneous responses regardless of type. This is helpful when retrying after HTTP 429 or other 3xx or 4xx errors. Otherwise, only retries on HTTP 5xx and network errors.	false
Max Retry Count	The maximum number of retries to attempt. Specify 0 for no retries.	0
Use Exponential Backoff	Specifies whether to use a pre-defined exponential backoff strategy for retries. When enabled, 'Retry Delay (ms)' is ignored.	false

Search Files

Search for an existing file by Name

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for Google Drive authorization.
Drive ID	The ID of a shared drive to search for the file in. If not provided, the search will be performed across all drives. Enter 'my-drive' to search only "My Drive".
Filters	Optional query controls to sort and refine the results.
Search	Search terms to filter results.
Files Containing Search Query	When true, searches for files that contain the provided search query in their name.	false
Query	A query string to filter results. See Google's documentation for query syntax.
Parent Folder ID	A unique opaque ID for each folder.
Fields	Fields to return in the response. For list operations, wrap field names in files(), e.g., files(id,name,mimeType). If unspecified, returns all fields. See Google's fields parameter documentation.	*
Fetch All	When true, automatically fetches all pages of results using pagination.	false
Pagination	Page-size and page-token controls for paging through results.
Page Size	The maximum number of results to return. Must be between 1 and 1000.	20
Page Token	Specify the pagination token that's returned by a previous request to retrieve the next page of results

Search Folders

Search for an existing directory by Name

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for Google Drive authorization.
Drive ID	The ID of a shared drive to search for the file in. If not provided, the search will be performed across all drives. Enter 'my-drive' to search only "My Drive".
Search	Search terms to filter results.
Parent Folder ID	A unique opaque ID for each folder.
Fields	Fields to return in the response. For list operations, wrap field names in files(), e.g., files(id,name,mimeType). If unspecified, returns all fields. See Google's fields parameter documentation.	*
Fetch All	When true, automatically fetches all pages of results using pagination.	false
Pagination	Page-size and page-token controls for paging through results.
Page Size	The maximum number of results to return. Must be between 1 and 1000.	20
Page Token	Specify the pagination token that's returned by a previous request to retrieve the next page of results

Update File

Updates a file's content by file id

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for Google Drive authorization.
File ID	A unique opaque ID for each file. File IDs are stable throughout the life of the file, even if the file name changes.
File Content	The binary or text body of the file. Images, videos, text, and PDF files can be stored in Google Drive.
File Name	The name of the file.
Fields	Fields to return in the response. For list operations, wrap field names in files(), e.g., files(id,name,mimeType). If unspecified, returns all fields. See Google's fields parameter documentation.	*