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Google Drive ACTION

Share File or Folder

Add a sharing permission to the sharing preferences of a file or folder and provide a sharing URL. See the documentation
  • Action
  • Writes data
  • OAuth
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's Google Drive account once, then configure and run Share File or Folder from your backend or agent.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "google_drive-add-file-sharing-preference",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    google_drive: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    drive: "Drive",
    useFileOrFolder: "Use File or Folder",
  },
})

console.log(result)

SCHEMA

Inputs

Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.

Share File or Folder inputs
Property Type Description
drive Drive string
Select a specific drive to search. Defaults to All Drives (My Drive and all Shared Drives you have access to) when no selection is made. To limit to your personal drive or a Shared Drive, select it from this list.
Optional Dynamic
useFileOrFolder Use File or Folder string
Whether to use a file or a folder for this action
Required
fileId File string
The file to share. You must specify either a file or a folder.
Required Dynamic
folderId Folder string
The folder to share. You must specify either a file or a folder.
Required Dynamic
type Type string
The type of the grantee. Sharing with a domain is only valid for G Suite users.
Required

REFERENCE

Tool details

Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.

Registry key
google_drive-add-file-sharing-preference
Version
0.2.21
App
Google Drive
Authentication
OAuth
Read-only
No
Destructive
No
Open world
Yes