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Create New File From Text

Create a new file from plain text. See the documentation for more information
  • Action
  • Writes data
  • OAuth
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's Google Drive account once, then configure and run Create New File From Text 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-text",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    google_drive: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    drive: "Drive",
    parentId: "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.

Create New File From Text 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
parentId Folder string
The folder you want to add the file to. If not specified, the file will be placed directly in the drive's top-level folder.
Optional Dynamic
name File Name string
The name of the file you want to create (e.g., myFile.txt)
Optional
content Content string
Enter text to create the file with.
Optional
mimeType Conversion Format string
The format in which the text is presented
Optional

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-text
Version
0.2.18
App
Google Drive
Authentication
OAuth
Read-only
No
Destructive
No
Open world
Yes