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Find File

Search for a specific file by name. The Search Name field uses Google Drive's tokenized full-text matching — pass a distinctive word or short phrase rather than the full title when the name contains special characters like & or '. See the documentation for more information
  • Action
  • Read only
  • OAuth
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's Google Drive account once, then configure and run Find File 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-find-file",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    google_drive: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    drive: "Drive",
    nameSearchTerm: "Search Name",
  },
})

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.

Find File 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
nameSearchTerm Search Name string
Search for a file by name (equivalent to the query name contains [value]).
Optional
searchQuery Search Query string
Search for a file with a query. See the documentation for more information. If specified, Search Name will be ignored.
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-find-file
Version
0.1.26
App
Google Drive
Authentication
OAuth
Read-only
Yes
Destructive
No
Open world
Yes