Integrate the Google Sheets API with the Google Drive API

Setup the Google Sheets API trigger to run a workflow which integrates with the Google Drive API. Pipedream's integration platform allows you to integrate Google Sheets and Google Drive remarkably fast. Free for developers.

Popular Ways to Connect Google Sheets with Google Drive#

Create New File From Template with Google Drive API on New Row Added (Instant) from Google Sheets API

Google Sheets + Google Drive

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Create New File From Template with Google Drive API on New Updates (Shared Drive, Instant) from Google Sheets API

Google Sheets + Google Drive

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Update Cell with Google Sheets API on New or Modified Files from Google Drive API

Google Drive + Google Sheets

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Add Single Row with Google Sheets API on Changes to Specific Files (Shared Drive) from Google Drive API

Google Drive + Google Sheets

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Add Single Row with Google Sheets API on Changes to Specific Files from Google Drive API

Google Drive + Google Sheets

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Popular Google Sheets and Google Drive Triggers#

Changes to Specific Files from the Google Drive API

Watches for changes to specific files, emitting an event any time a change is made to one of those files. To watch for changes to shared drive files, use the Changes to Specific Files (Shared Drive) source instead.

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Changes to Specific Files (Shared Drive) from the Google Drive API

Watches for changes to specific files in a shared drive, emitting an event any time a change is made to one of those files

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New Row Added (Instant) from the Google Sheets API

Emit new events each time a row or rows are added to the bottom of a spreadsheet. To use this source with a spreadsheet in a Shared Drive, use the New Row Added (Shared Drive, Instant) source instead.

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New Row Added (Shared Drive, Instant) from the Google Sheets API

Emit new events each time a row or rows are added to the bottom of a spreadsheet in a shared drive

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New Updates (Instant) from the Google Sheets API

Emit new event each time a row or cell is updated in a spreadsheet. To use this source with a spreadsheet in a Shared Drive, use the New Updates (Shared Drive, Instant) source instead.

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Popular Google Sheets and Google Drive Actions#

Add Single Row with the Google Sheets API

Add a single row of data to Google Sheets

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Add File Sharing Preference with the Google Drive API

Add a sharing permission to the sharing preferences of a file or folder and provide a sharing URL. See the docs for more information

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Add Multiple Rows with the Google Sheets API

Add multiple rows of data to a Google Sheet

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Get Values with the Google Sheets API

Get all values from a sheet.

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Get Values in Range with the Google Sheets API

Get values from a range of cells using A1 notation.

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Overview of Google Sheets#

The Google Sheets API allows for the creation, reading, updating, and deletion of data within Google Sheets, enabling a robust platform for spreadsheet management and data manipulation. Through Pipedream, you can craft serverless workflows that respond to various triggers, such as webhook events, emails, or scheduled times, to interact with Google Sheets. This synergy can automate reporting, synchronize data across applications, manage inventory, track leads in a CRM, or even conduct survey analysis by updating and retrieving sheet data on the fly.

Connect Google Sheets#

import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    google_sheets: {
      type: "app",
      app: "google_sheets",
    }
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    return await axios($, {
      url: `https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/userinfo`,
      headers: {
        Authorization: `Bearer ${this.google_sheets.$auth.oauth_access_token}`,
      },
    })
  },
})

Overview of Google Drive#

Using the Google Drive API, you can build applications that:

Create and manage files and folders
Download and upload files
Share and organize files
Search for files
Track changes to files
And much more!

Connect Google Drive#

import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    google_drive: {
      type: "app",
      app: "google_drive",
    }
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    return await axios($, {
      url: `https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/userinfo`,
      headers: {
        Authorization: `Bearer ${this.google_drive.$auth.oauth_access_token}`,
      },
    })
  },
})

Using Event Sources and Workflows: Analyze Twitter Sentiment in Real-Time and Save to Google Sheets

Learn how you can use Pipedream event sources and serverless workflows to listen for new Twitter mentions, analyze the sentiment of each Tweet using the npm sentiment package (https://www.npmjs.com/package/sentiment), and then save that data to Google Sheets in real-time.

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Community Posts#

Building a Google Sheets Twitter Bot with Pipedream

This is something that's been kicking around my head for a week or so and today I thought I'd try it. It ended up taking about 20 minutes total and 10 lines of code, of which 5 are a function I copied and pasted. While what I built is kind of trivial, I'm blown away by how much was done by built-in functions with Pipedream and how little work I had to do myself. In fact, most of my time was spent in setting stuff up outside of Pipedream itself. Alright, so what did I build?

Building a Twitter Scheduling System with Pipedream and Google Sheets

A few months ago, I blogged about how I used Pipedream and Google Sheets to create a Twitter bot. The idea was simple - read a sheet - select a random row - and use that as the source of a new Tweet. I was thinking about this recently and how useful Google Sheets can be as a "light weight CMS" and figured out another interesting use case - Twitter scheduling.

Logging user credit changes using Google Sheets and Pipedream

One of the nice features SuperSaaS is a credit system which allows end-users to buy credit once and then easily pay for appointments without needing to go through the checkout each time. There are multiple things that can affect a credit balance. Credit purchases and new appointment, obviously, but also refunds due to canceled appointments, and manual credit adjustments by a superuser. This post is a step-by-step tutorial for setting up the logging of user credit information to a Google Sheet using Pipedream, a powerful API integration service.