Google Drive Connector

Manage files in Google Drive

Connections

OAuth2

OAuth2 Connection

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 Google Drive app's Client Identifier.
Client Secret	The Google Drive app's Client Secret.

Triggers

Drive Activity

Checks for Google Drive activity. 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.
Connection	The Connection to use for authorization.

New and Updated Files

Checks for new and updated files in a specified drive (or all drives, if omitted) on a configured schedule.

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for 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 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	Provide a string for the name of the new 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 authorization.
Parent Folder Id	A unique opaque ID for each folder.
File Content	The binary or text body of the file. Some content examples you can store in Google Drive are images, videos, text, and PDF.
File Name	Provide a string for the name of the new file.
Fields	Provide a comma separated list of values to be returned in the response.	*

Create Folder

Create a directory file

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for authorization.
Folder Name	Provide a string for the name of the new 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 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 to send notifications to
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 authorization.
File or Folder ID
Endpoint	The URL to send notifications to
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 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	Provide a comma separated list of values to be returned in the response.	*

Delete Webhook

Stop a webhook channel from sending notifications

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for authorization.
Webhook ID	Returned when you create a webhook
Resource ID	Returned when you create a webhook

Empty Trash

Empty the trash of deleted files

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for authorization.

Get About

Gets information about the user's Drive, and system capabilities

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for authorization.
Fields	Provide a comma separated list of values to be returned in the response.	*

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 authorization.

Get File

Gets a file's metadata and content by ID.

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for 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	Provide the type of file you want to export as. If the value you provided is not compatible, we will attempt the first option available in the objects export types. This value is only required when exporting a non binary file.

Get File Metadata

Gets a file's metadata and content by ID.

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for 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	Provide a comma separated list of values to be returned in the response.

List Changes

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

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for 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 authorization.

List Files

Lists all available files and directories

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for 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".
Page Size	Provide an integer value for the maximum amount of results that will be returned. Provide a value from 1 to 50.	20
Page Token	Specify the pagination token that's returned by a previous request to retrieve the next page of results
Fields	Provide a comma separated list of values to be returned in the response.	*
Query	Provide a query to be used in the request. Refer to the Google documentation for examples: https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/search-files

List File's Export Types

List the available export types of a file by ID.

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for 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 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".
Page Size	Provide an integer value for the maximum amount of results that will be returned. Provide a value from 1 to 50.	20
Page Token	Specify the pagination token that's returned by a previous request to retrieve the next page of results
Fields	Provide a comma separated list of values to be returned in the response.	*
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 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 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.
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.
Fetch All	Whether to fetch all results or just the first page. Defaults to false.	false

Raw Request

Send raw HTTP request to Google Drive

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for 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
Debug Request	Enabling this flag will log out the current request.	false
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 authorization.
Search	Provide a string of text to perform a search with.
Files Containing Search Query	Wether or not to search for files that contains the provided 'searchQuery' in their name.	false
Page Size	Provide an integer value for the maximum amount of results that will be returned. Provide a value from 1 to 50.	20
Page Token	Specify the pagination token that's returned by a previous request to retrieve the next page of results
Fields	Provide a comma separated list of values to be returned in the response.	*
Query	Provide a query to be used in the request. Refer to the Google documentation for examples: https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/search-files
Parent Folder Id	A unique opaque ID for each folder.

Search Folders

Search for an existing directory by Name

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for authorization.
Search	Provide a string of text to perform a search with.
Page Size	Provide an integer value for the maximum amount of results that will be returned. Provide a value from 1 to 50.	20
Page Token	Specify the pagination token that's returned by a previous request to retrieve the next page of results
Fields	Provide a comma separated list of values to be returned in the response.	*
Parent Folder Id	A unique opaque ID for each folder.

Update File

Updates a file's content by file id

Input	Comments	Default
Connection	The Connection to use for 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. Some content examples you can store in Google Drive are images, videos, text, and PDF.
File Name	Provide a string for the name of the new file.
Fields	Provide a comma separated list of values to be returned in the response.	*

Connections​

OAuth2​

Triggers​

Drive Activity​

New and Updated Files​

Push Notification Webhook​

Actions​

Copy File​

Create File​

Create Folder​

Create Webhook for Drive​

Create Webhook for File or Folder​

Delete File​

Delete Webhook​

Empty Trash​

Get About​

Get Current User​

Get File​

Get File Metadata​

List Changes​

List Drives​

List Files​

List File's Export Types​

List Folders​

Move File​

Query Drive Activity​

Raw Request​

Search Files​

Search Folders​

Update File​