Google Docs

Google document editor for collaborative text documents, comments, revisions, and sharing.

Good for creating documents, appending text or images, and reacting when shared documents are created or updated.

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Google Drive

Google cloud storage service for files, folders, shared drives, permissions, and document activity.

Google Sheets

Google spreadsheet service for worksheets, rows, cells, formulas, charts, and shared workbooks.

Google Slides

Presentation editor for slide decks, slides, layouts, speaker notes, comments, and shared presentations.

Example Use Cases

These are example ways Snow can use Google Docs when building apps with you. This list is meant to show examples, not document every possible capability. Connecting an account does not make Snow run these automatically on its own.

Copy Google Document

Tool to create a copy of an existing Google Document. Use this to duplicate a document, for example, when using an existing document as a template. The copied document will have a default title (e.g., 'Copy of

Create a document

Creates a new Google Docs document using the provided title as filename and inserts the initial text at the beginning if non-empty, returning the document's ID and metadata (excluding body content).

Create blank document (Deprecated)

DEPRECATED: Use GOOGLEDOCS_CREATE_DOCUMENT instead. Tool to create a blank Google Docs document with a specified title. Use when you need to create a new, empty document.

Create Document Markdown

Creates a new Google Docs document, optionally initializing it with a title and content provided as Markdown text.

Create Footer

Tool to create a new footer in a Google Document. Use when you need to add a footer, optionally specifying its type and the section it applies to.

Create Footnote

Tool to create a new footnote in a Google Document. Use this when you need to add a footnote at a specific location or at the end of the document body.

Create Header

Tool to create a new header in a Google Document, optionally with text content. Use this tool when you need to add a header to a document. You can provide: - document_id: The ID of the document (required) - type: The header type (DEFAULT is the standard header) - text: Optional text content to add to the header - section_break_location: Optional location for section-specific headers

Create Named Range

Tool to create a new named range in a Google Document. Use this to assign a name to a specific part of the document for easier reference or programmatic manipulation.

Create Paragraph Bullets

Tool to add bullets to paragraphs within a specified range in a Google Document. Use when you need to format a list or a set of paragraphs as bullet points.

Delete Content Range in Document

Tool to delete a range of content from a Google Document. Use when you need to remove a specific portion of text or other structural elements within a document. Note: Every segment (body, header, footer, footnote) in Google Docs ends with a final newline character that cannot be deleted. Ensure the endIndex does not include this trailing newline.

Triggers

These are the trigger events currently available for Google Docs.

Document Deleted

Triggers when an existing Google Doc is deleted (moved to trash). This trigger monitors Google Docs and fires when documents are trashed.

Document Placeholder Filled

Triggers when a Google Doc's plain text changes such that a configured placeholder token/pattern is no longer present (i.e., the document has been filled in). This trigger monitors a specific Google Doc and fires when a placeholder pattern that was previously present is no longer found in the document's plain text.

Document Search Update

Triggers when a Google Doc matching a user-defined search query is newly created or updated since the last poll. This trigger uses timestamp filtering to efficiently monitor documents.

Document Structure Changed

Triggers when a Google Doc's structure changes (headers/footers added/removed, tables/images count changes). This trigger monitors a specific document for structural changes like: - Headers added or removed - Footers added or removed - Tables added or removed - Images (inline objects) added or removed - Positioned objects added or removed - Footnotes added or removed

Document Updated

Triggers when an existing Google Doc is updated or modified. This trigger monitors Google Docs and fires when documents are updated.

Document Word Count Threshold

Triggers when a Google Doc's word/character count crosses a user-defined threshold. This trigger monitors a specific Google Doc and fires when its word or character count becomes greater than or equal to the configured threshold value.

Keyword Detected in Document

Triggers when a specific keyword or phrase first appears in a Google Doc. This trigger monitors a Google Doc and fires once when the specified keyword is detected. After the keyword is found, the trigger will not fire again until reset.

New Document Added

Triggers when a new Google Doc is added/created. This trigger monitors Google Docs and fires when new documents are detected.

New Document Created

Triggers when a new Google Doc is created. This trigger monitors Google Docs and fires when new documents are detected. Uses timestamp filtering to efficiently poll for new documents.

New Folder Created in Root

Triggers when a new folder is created in the root folder of Google Drive. This trigger monitors Google Drive and fires when new folders are detected in the root directory.