Google Drive ACTION
Create New File From Template
Create a new Google Docs file from a template. Optionally include placeholders in the template document that will get replaced from this action. See documentation
- Action
- Writes data
- Destructive
- OAuth
- SDK
- MCP
IMPLEMENTATION
Call this tool
Connect a user's Google Drive account once, then configure and run Create New File From Template 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-create-file-from-template",
externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
configuredProps: {
google_drive: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
drive: "Drive Containing Template",
templateId: "File",
},
})
console.log(result)curl -X POST https://api.pipedream.com/v1/connect/{project_id}/actions/run \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "X-PD-Environment: production" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer {access_token}" \
-d '{
"external_user_id": "{external_user_id}",
"id": "google_drive-create-file-from-template",
"configured_props": {
"google_drive": { "authProvisionId": "apn_xxxxxxx" },
"drive": "Drive Containing Template",
"templateId": "File"
}
}'// accessToken: mint a short-lived token with the Connect SDK — see the MCP guide
const transport = new StreamableHTTPClientTransport(
new URL("https://remote.mcp.pipedream.net/v3"),
{
requestInit: {
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${accessToken}`,
"x-pd-project-id": "{project_id}",
"x-pd-environment": "production",
"x-pd-external-user-id": "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
"x-pd-app-slug": "google_drive",
},
},
},
)
const mcp = new Client({ name: "my-agent", version: "1.0.0" })
await mcp.connect(transport)
const { tools } = await mcp.listTools()
// listTools() hands your model this tool's input schema, so it can
// fill the arguments itself:
const result = await mcp.callTool({
name: "google_drive-create-file-from-template",
arguments: {
drive: "Drive Containing Template",
templateId: "File",
},
})SCHEMA
Inputs
Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
drive Drive Containing Template | 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 |
templateId File | string | Select the template document you'd like to use as the template, or use a custom expression to reference a document ID from a previous step. Template documents should contain placeholders in the format {{xyz}}. Required Dynamic |
destinationDrive Destination 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 |
folderId Folder | string | Select the folder of the newly created Google Doc and/or PDF, or use a custom expression to reference a folder ID from a previous step. Optional Dynamic |
name Name | string | Name of the file you want to create (eg. myFile will create a Google Doc called myFile and a pdf called myFile.pdf) Required |
mode Mode | string[] | Specify if you want to create a Google Doc, PDF or both. Required |
replaceValues Replace text placeholders | object | Replace text placeholders in the document. Use the format {{xyz}} in the document but exclude the curly braces in the key. (eg. {{myPlaceholder}} in the document will be replaced by the value of the key myPlaceholder in the action. 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-create-file-from-template
- Version
- 0.1.28
- App
- Google Drive
- Authentication
- OAuth
- Read-only
- No
- Destructive
- Yes
- Open world
- Yes
- Source
- View on GitHub ↗