--- title: "Connect Axonaut and Google Drive - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Axonaut User\" fires in Axonaut, your agent runs \"Add File Sharing Preference\" in Google Drive." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/axonaut-to-google-drive" --- # Connect Axonaut and Google Drive When **New Axonaut User** fires in [Axonaut](https://apiant.ai/connections/axonaut), your agent runs **Add File Sharing Preference** in [Google Drive](https://apiant.ai/connections/google-drive), or **Comment Added (Docs/Sheets/Slides)** in Google Drive to **Create Invoice** in Axonaut. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Axonaut **13** triggers Axonaut **17** actions Google Drive **7** triggers Google Drive **85** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Axonaut and Google Drive to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Axonaut and Google Drive can do together ### From Axonaut to Google Drive - When **New Axonaut User** in Axonaut then **Add File Sharing Preference** in Google Drive - When **New Closed Ticket** in Axonaut then **Create Comment** in Google Drive ### From Google Drive to Axonaut - When **Comment Added (Docs/Sheets/Slides)** in Google Drive then **Create Invoice** in Axonaut - When **File Created** in Google Drive then **Create Event** in Axonaut Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with Axonaut and Google Drive ## Triggers and actions 20 triggers · 102 actions - Trigger **New Axonaut User** Triggers when a new user is added to the Axonaut account. - Trigger **New Closed Ticket** Triggers when a support ticket is closed in Axonaut, optionally only for one company. - Trigger **New Company** Triggers when a new company is created in Axonaut, optionally limited to customers, prospects or suppliers, or to a city or name. - Trigger **New Contract** Triggers when a new order (contract) is created in Axonaut. - Trigger **New Employee** Triggered when a new employee (a contact at a company) is created in Axonaut. - Trigger **New Expense** Triggered when a new expense is created in Axonaut. - Trigger **New Invoice** Triggers when a new invoice is created in Axonaut. - Trigger **New Opportunity** Triggered when a new opportunity is created in Axonaut. - Trigger **New Product** Triggered when a new product is created in Axonaut. - Trigger **New Project** Triggers when a new project is created in Axonaut. - Trigger **New Quotation** Triggered when a new quotation is created. - Trigger **New Task** Triggers when a new task is created in Axonaut. - Trigger **New Ticket** Triggered when a new ticket is created. - Action **Create Employee** Creates an employee (contact person) on a company in Axonaut. - Action **Create Event** Creates an event (meeting, email, phone call, mail, text message or note) in Axonaut, optionally linked to a company, contact and opportunity. - Action **Create Expense** Creates an expense in Axonaut, optionally linked to a supplier, project or workforce. - Action **Create Invoice** Creates an invoice in Axonaut for a company, with its product lines, dates, discounts, deposit and payment options. - Action **Create Opportunity** Creates a sales opportunity for a company in Axonaut, optionally placing it in a pipeline step and linking contacts. - Action **Create Product** Creates a product or service in your Axonaut catalog, with its price, tax rate, stock and other details. - Action **Create Quotation** Creates a quotation (quote) for a customer company in Axonaut, with its product lines, discount and terms. - Action **Create Supplier** Creates a new supplier in Axonaut with its address, VAT and SIRET numbers, categories and custom fields. - Action **Create Ticket** Creates a support ticket in Axonaut, optionally linked to a company, contacts, a project and an assigned team member. - Action **Find Company** Finds companies in Axonaut whose name contains the text you give, optionally narrowed by internal id, type, SIRET, city or zip code. - Action **Find Contract** Finds Axonaut orders (contracts) by their id, optionally narrowed by last-update date, and returns the matching orders. - Action **Find Expense** Finds Axonaut expenses whose title or number contains the text you enter, optionally narrowed by date and payment status. - Action **Find Product** Finds products in Axonaut by name, product code or internal reference. - Action **Find Quotation** Finds quotations in Axonaut whose number matches the one you supply, optionally narrowed by status, company and date. - Action **Find Supplier** Returns the suppliers whose name contains the text you specify, searching the first five pages of your Axonaut suppliers. - Action **Search Company** Returns the companies whose name contains the search text, optionally narrowed by type, location, SIRET, internal id, status or custom field values. - Action **Search Employee** Returns the employees (company contacts) matching an email, first name, last name, phone number or custom field value. - Trigger **Comment Added (Docs/Sheets/Slides)** Triggers when a new comment is added to Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides. - Trigger **File Created** Triggers when a new file is created in Google Drive. - Trigger **File Deleted or Trashed** Triggers when a file is moved to trash or permanently deleted in Drive. - Trigger **File Shared (Permissions Added)** Triggers when new sharing permissions are granted to a file or folder. Uses Drive's `changes.list` endpoint with inline `permissions` in the `fields` mask so each change carries the file's current permission set provider-atomically. We diff that against `seen_permission_keys` to identify newly added grants. Drive page tokens are the primary cursor; if Drive rejects a stored token, the trigger raises `PollingTriggerError` without clearing state rather than silently re-baselining and dropping events. Limitation: truly ephemeral permissions (added and revoked between two polls without any other file modification in between) are not detected. Drive Activity API would catch those but requires an additional OAuth scope and a different payload contract. - Trigger **File Updated** Triggers when a file's metadata or content changes in Google Drive. - Trigger **Google Drive Changes** Triggers when changes are detected in a Google Drive. - Trigger **New File Matching Query** Triggers when a new Google Drive file matches a provided query. This is the legacy query-centric trigger: it preserves Drive API query config such as ``corpora`` / ``driveId`` aliases and emits the historical ``file_matching_query`` event type. ``FileCreatedTrigger`` covers the broader "new file" case and emits ``file_created``. - Action **Add File Sharing Preference** Modifies sharing permissions for an existing google drive file, granting a specified role to a user, group, domain, or 'anyone'. - Action **Add Parent** Tool to add a parent folder for a file using Google Drive API v2. Use when you need to add a file to an additional folder. - Action **Add Property** Tool to add a property to a file, or update it if it already exists (v2 API). Use when you need to attach custom key-value metadata to a Google Drive file. - Action **Batch Get Spreadsheet Values** Read multiple explicit ranges from one Google Spreadsheet in one request. - Action **Batch Update Spreadsheet Values** Write values to multiple Google Sheets ranges in one batch request. - Action **Clear Spreadsheet Values** Permanently clear values from one range while preserving formatting, notes, and validation. - Action **Copy File** Duplicates an existing file in google drive, identified by its `file id`. - Action **Copy File Advanced** Creates a copy of a file and applies any requested updates with patch semantics. Use when you need to duplicate a file with advanced options like label inclusion, visibility settings, or custom metadata. - Action **Create Comment** Tool to create a comment on a file. use when you need to add a new comment to a specific file in google drive. - Action **Create File** Creates a new file or folder with metadata. use to create empty files or folders, or files with content by providing it in the request body (though this action primarily focuses on metadata creation). - Action **Create File From Text** Creates a new file in google drive from provided text content (up to 10mb), supporting various formats including automatic conversion to google workspace types. - Action **Create Folder** Creates a new folder in google drive, optionally within a parent folder specified by its id or name; if a parent name is provided but not found, the action will fail. - Action **Create Permission** Tool to create a permission for a file or shared drive. Use when you need to share a file or folder with users, groups, domains, or make it publicly accessible. **Warning:** Concurrent permissions operations on the same file are not supported; only the last update is applied. - Action **Create Permissions Batch** Creates multiple permissions for files or shared drives in a single batch request. Use this action when you need to share multiple files with users, or share a single file with multiple users or groups simultaneously. Each permission in the batch can target a different file and specify different access levels. Batch operations are more efficient than creating permissions individually, with a maximum of 100 permissions per batch. - Action **Create Reply** Tool to create a reply to a comment in google drive. use when you need to respond to an existing comment on a file. - Action **Create Shortcut To File** Tool to create a shortcut to a file or folder in google drive. use when you need to link to an existing drive item from another location without duplicating it. - Action **Delete Child** Tool to remove a child from a folder using Google Drive API v2. Use when you need to remove a file from a specific folder. - Action **Delete Comment** Deletes a comment from a file. use when you need to remove a specific comment from a google drive file. - Action **Delete Parent** Tool to remove a parent from a file using Google Drive API v2. Use when you need to remove a file from a specific folder. - Action **Delete Permission** Deletes a permission from a file by permission id. use when you need to revoke access for a specific user or group from a file. - Action **Delete Property** Tool to delete a property from a file using Google Drive API v2. Use when you need to remove custom key-value metadata from a file. - Action **Delete Reply** Tool to delete a specific reply by reply id. use when you need to remove a reply from a comment on a file. - Action **Delete Revision** Tool to permanently delete a file revision. Use when you need to remove a specific version of a binary file (images, videos, etc.). Cannot delete revisions for Google Docs/Sheets or the last remaining revision. - Action **Download File** Downloads a file from google drive by its id. for google workspace documents (docs, sheets, slides), optionally exports to a specified `mime type`. for other file types, downloads in their native format regardless of mime type. - Action **Download File Operation** Tool to download file content using long-running operations. Use when you need to download Google Vids files or export Google Workspace documents as part of a long-running operation. Operations are valid for 24 hours from creation. Returns a response containing `downloaded_file_content.s3url` — a short-lived S3 URL; fetch the actual file bytes from that URL promptly after the call. - Action **Download File Revision** Download the stored bytes of one blob-file revision. This action does not export Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, or other Workspace revisions. Use GOOGLEDRIVE_GET_REVISION to retrieve a Workspace revision's exportLinks, then download the selected export URL separately. - Action **Edit File** Updates an existing google drive file by overwriting its entire content with new text (max 10mb). - Action **Empty Trash** Tool to permanently delete all of the user's trashed files. use when you want to empty the trash in google drive. - Action **Export Google Workspace File** Exports a Google Workspace document to the requested MIME type and returns exported file content. Use when you need to export Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, or Apps Script files to a specific format. Note: The exported content is limited to 10MB by Google Drive API. - Action **Find File** Tool to list or search for files and folders in google drive. use when you need to find specific files based on query criteria or list contents of a drive/folder. - Action **Find Folder** Tool to find a folder in google drive by its name and optionally a parent folder. use when you need to locate a specific folder to perform further actions like creating files in it or listing its contents. - Action **Generate Ids** Generates a set of file ids which can be provided in create or copy requests. use when you need to pre-allocate ids for new files or copies. - Action **Get About** Tool to retrieve information about the user, the user's drive, and system capabilities. use when you need to check storage quotas, user details, or supported import/export formats. - Action **Get App** Tool to get information about a specific Drive app by ID. Use 'self' as the app ID to get information about the calling app. - Action **Get Change** Tool to get a specific change by ID from Google Drive v2 API. Deprecated: Use changes.getStartPageToken and changes.list to retrieve recent changes instead. - Action **Get Changes Start Page Token** Tool to get the starting pagetoken for listing future changes in google drive. use this when you need to track changes to files and folders. - Action **Get Child** Tool to get a specific child reference for a folder using Drive API v2. Use when you need to verify a specific file exists as a child of a folder. - Action **Get Comment** Tool to get a comment by id. use when you need to retrieve a specific comment from a google drive file and have both the file id and comment id. - Action **Get Document** Retrieve a native Google Docs document's structured content and metadata by ID. - Action **Get File Metadata** Tool to get a file's metadata by id. use when you need to retrieve the metadata for a specific file in google drive. - Action **Get File Property** Tool to get a property by its key using Google Drive API v2. Use when you need to retrieve a specific custom property attached to a file. - Action **Get Form** Retrieve a Google Form's definition, questions, settings, and publishing state by ID. - Action **Get Parent** Tool to get a specific parent reference for a file using Drive API v2. Use when you need to retrieve information about a specific parent folder of a file. - Action **Get Permission** Gets a permission by id. use this tool to retrieve a specific permission for a file or shared drive. - Action **Get Permission Id For Email** Tool to get the permission ID for an email address using the Drive API v2. Use when you need to convert an email address to its corresponding permission ID. - Action **Get Presentation** Retrieve a Google Slides presentation and its complete page structures by ID. - Action **Get Presentation Page Thumbnail** Generate one short-lived page thumbnail URL using an expensive Slides quota read. - Action **Get Reply** Tool to get a specific reply to a comment on a file. use when you need to retrieve the details of a particular reply. - Action **Get Revision** Tool to get a specific revision's metadata by revision id. use when you need to retrieve information about a particular version of a file. - Action **Get Spreadsheet** Retrieve a Google Spreadsheet's structure, metadata, and selected grid data. - Action **Get Spreadsheet Values** Read values from one range in a Google Spreadsheet. - Action **Google Drive Delete Folder Or File Action** Tool to delete a file or folder in google drive. use when you need to permanently remove a specific file or folder using its id. note: this action is irreversible. - Action **Insert Child** Tool to insert a file into a folder using Drive API v2. Use when you need to add an existing file to a folder. - Action **List Changes** Tool to list the changes for a user or shared drive. use when you need to track modifications to files and folders, such as creations, deletions, or permission changes. this action requires a `pagetoken` which can be initially obtained using the `get changes start page token` action or from a previous `list changes` response. - Action **List Children V2** Tool to list a folder's children using Google Drive API v2. Use when you need to retrieve all files and folders within a specific folder. - Action **List Comments** Tool to list all comments for a file in google drive. use when you need to retrieve comments associated with a specific file. - Action **List File Labels** Tool to list the labels on a file. use when you need to retrieve all labels associated with a specific file in google drive. - Action **List File Properties** Tool to list a file's properties in Google Drive API v2. Use when you need to retrieve custom properties (key-value pairs) attached to a file. - Action **List Files** Tool to list a user's files and folders in google drive. use this to search or browse for files and folders based on various criteria. - Action **List Form Responses** Return one page of submissions for a Google Form. - Action **List Permissions** Tool to list a file's permissions. use when you need to retrieve all permissions associated with a specific file or shared drive. - Action **List Replies** Tool to list replies to a comment in Google Drive. Use this when you need to retrieve all replies associated with a specific comment on a file. - Action **List Replies To Comment** Tool to list replies to a comment in google drive. use this when you need to retrieve all replies associated with a specific comment on a file. - Action **List Revisions** Tool to list a file's revisions. use when you need to retrieve the revision history of a specific file in google drive. - Action **List Shared Drives** Tool to list the user's shared drives. use when you need to get a list of all shared drives accessible to the authenticated user. - Action **Move File** Tool to move a file from one folder to another in google drive. use when you need to reorganize files by changing their parent folder(s). - Action **Patch Permission** Tool to update a permission using patch semantics. Use when you need to modify specific fields of an existing permission without affecting other fields. **Warning:** Concurrent permissions operations on the same file are not supported; only the last update is applied. - Action **Patch Property** Tool to update a property on a file using PATCH semantics (v2 API). Use when you need to partially update custom key-value metadata attached to a Google Drive file. - Action **Read Spreadsheet Values** Read values from one or more ranges in a Google spreadsheet. - Action **Resumable Upload** Tool to start and complete a Google Drive resumable upload session. Use for files larger than ~5 MB to avoid timeouts or size-limit failures. HTTP 308 means continue the session from the correct byte offset; HTTP 410 means the session expired and a full restart with a new session is required. - Action **Stop Watch Channel** Tool to stop watching resources through a specified channel. use this when you want to stop receiving notifications for a previously established watch. - Action **Trash File** Tool to move a file or folder to trash (soft delete). Use when you need to delete a file but want to allow recovery via UNTRASH_FILE. This action is distinct from permanent deletion and provides a safer cleanup workflow. - Action **Update Comment** Tool to update an existing comment on a google drive file. use when you need to change the content or status (e.g., resolve) of a comment. - Action **Update File Metadata Patch** Tool to update file metadata using the Drive API v2 PATCH method. Use when you need to modify file properties like title, description, or labels using patch semantics. - Action **Update File Property** Tool to update a property on a file using Google Drive API v2. Use when you need to modify an existing custom property attached to a file. - Action **Update File Put** Updates file metadata. uses patch semantics (partial update) as per google drive api v3. use this tool to modify attributes of an existing file like its name, description, or parent folders. note: this action currently supports metadata updates only. - Action **Update File Revision Metadata** Updates metadata of a file revision (e.g., keepforever, publish). use this tool to modify the metadata of a specific revision of a file in google drive. - Action **Update Permission** Tool to update a permission with patch semantics. use when you need to modify an existing permission for a file or shared drive. - Action **Update Reply** Tool to update a reply to a comment on a google drive file. use when you need to modify the content of an existing reply. - Action **Update Spreadsheet Values** Write values to one exact Google Sheets range. - Action **Upload From Url** Tool to fetch a file from a provided URL server-side and upload it into Google Drive. Use when you need to reliably persist externally hosted files into Drive without client-side downloads or temporary storage. - Action **Upload Update File** Tool to update file content in Google Drive by uploading new binary content. Use when you need to replace the contents of an existing file with new file data. - Action **Watch Changes** Tool to subscribe to changes for a user or shared drive in google drive. use when you need to monitor a google drive for modifications and receive notifications at a specified webhook url. - Action **Watch File** Tool to subscribe to push notifications for changes to a specific file. Use when you need to monitor a file for modifications and receive real-time notifications at a webhook URL. - Action **Write Spreadsheet Values** Replace values in one range of a Google spreadsheet. ## Each app on its own - [ **Axonaut** Axonaut is a CRM and more: follow your customer from before the first contact, beginning at the marketing...](https://apiant.ai/connections/axonaut) - [ **Google Drive** Google Drive is a cloud storage solution for uploading, sharing, and collaborating on files across devices...](https://apiant.ai/connections/google-drive) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Axonaut - [ **Axonaut to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/axonaut-to-hubspot) - [ **Axonaut to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/axonaut-to-salesforce) - [ **Axonaut to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/axonaut-to-slack) - [ **Axonaut to Google Sheets** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/axonaut-to-google-sheets) - [ **Axonaut to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/axonaut-to-gmail) - [ **Axonaut to Google Calendar** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/axonaut-to-google-calendar) ## More into Google Drive - [ **Slack to Google Drive** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-google-drive) - [ **Pipedrive to Google Drive** Pipedrive is a sales CRM and pipeline management tool.](https://apiant.ai/connect/pipedrive-to-google-drive) - [ **ActiveCampaign to Google Drive** ActiveCampaign is a marketing automation, email marketing, and CRM platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/activecampaign-to-google-drive) - [ **Airtable to Google Drive** Organize anything with Airtable, a modern database created for everyone.](https://apiant.ai/connect/airtable-to-google-drive) - [ **Asana to Google Drive** Asana is a collaborative information manager for workspace.](https://apiant.ai/connect/asana-to-google-drive) - [ **JIRA to Google Drive** Atlassian JIRA Cloud — issue tracking and project management.](https://apiant.ai/connect/jira-to-google-drive) Questions ## Axonaut and Google Drive, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Axonaut? Any of Axonaut's 13 triggers in the catalog, including New Axonaut User, New Closed Ticket, New Company and New Contract. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Google Drive when something happens in Axonaut? Any of Google Drive's 85 actions, including Create Comment, Create File, Create File From Text and Create Folder. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Google Drive to Axonaut? Yes. When something happens in Google Drive, your agent can act in Axonaut too. This page covers both directions: Google Drive's triggers and Axonaut's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Axonaut or Google Drive? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use Axonaut and Google Drive without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.