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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Export Google Doc as PDF
Tool to export a Google Docs file as PDF using the Google Drive API. Use when you need to generate a PDF version of a Google Docs document for download or distribution. Note: Google Drive enforces a 10MB limit on export content.
Get Charts from Spreadsheet
Tool to retrieve a list of all charts from a specified Google Sheets spreadsheet. Use when you need to get chart IDs and their specifications for embedding or referencing elsewhere, such as in Google Docs.
Get document plain text
Retrieve a Google Doc by ID and return a best-effort plain-text rendering. Converts document structure into plain text including paragraphs, lists, and tables without requiring clients to traverse complex Docs API JSON.
Get document by id
Retrieves an existing Google Document by its ID; will error if the document is not found.
Get Document End Index
Retrieves the end index and paragraph structure of a Google Document or specific segment. Use this action when you need to determine valid insertion points for text operations, especially before using insertText requests. The end index represents the maximum boundary of the document body or specified segment (header, footer, footnote, or tab).
Search Documents
Search for Google Documents using various filters including name, content, date ranges, and more.

Creates6

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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 Document Markdown
Creates a new Google Docs document, optionally initializing it with a title and content provided as Markdown text.
Create Document Tab
Creates a new tab in a Google Docs document. Tabs allow you to organize document content into separate sections within a single document. Use this action when you need to add a new organizational tab to a document. When a tab is added at a specified index, all subsequent tabs' indexes are automatically incremented.
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 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.

Updates21

Change something that is already there.

Create and Populate Table in Google Doc
Creates a new table in a Google Document and populates its cells with provided text data in a single operation. Use this action when you need to insert a structured table with predefined content into a document. The action handles both table creation and cell population automatically, eliminating the need for separate operations.
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 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 Paragraph Bullets
Tool to remove bullets from paragraphs within a specified range in a Google Document. Use when you need to clear bullet formatting from a section of a document.
Insert Image in Table Cell
Inserts an image from a given URI into a specific table cell in a Google Document. Use this action when you need to add an image to a particular cell within a table. The action identifies the target cell by table start index, row index, and column index, then inserts the image at the specified position within that cell's content.
Insert Inline Image
Tool to insert an image from a given URI at a specified location in a Google Document as an inline image. Use when you need to add an image to a document programmatically.
Insert Page Break
Tool to insert a page break into a Google Document. Use when you need to start new content on a fresh page, such as at the end of a chapter or section.
Insert Table Column
Tool to insert a new column into a table in a Google Document. Use this tool when you need to add a column to an existing table at a specific location.
Insert Table in Google Doc
Tool to insert a table into a Google Document. Use when you need to add a new table at a specific location or at the end of a segment (like document body, header, or footer) in a document.
Insert Table Row
Inserts a new row into a table in a Google Document at a specified location. Use this action when you need to add a row to an existing table, either above or below a reference cell location.
Insert Text in Table Cell
Inserts text into a specific cell of a table in a Google Document by row and column position. Use this action when you need to add or update text content in a table cell at a known row and column index. To use this action, you must first retrieve the document structure using GOOGLEDOCS_GET_DOCUMENT_BY_ID to find the table's start index. Then specify the target cell by its zero-based row and column indices (e.g., row_index=0, column_index=0 for the top-left cell).
Insert Text into Document
Tool to insert a string of text at a specified location within a Google Document. Use when you need to add new text content to an existing document. IMPORTANT: Two ways to specify insertion location: 1. Use 'insertion_index' to insert at a specific position (index 1 is safe for document start) 2. Use 'append_to_end=true' to append text to the end of the document (recommended for appending) CRITICAL CONSTRAINT: When using insertion_index, the index MUST fall within the bounds of an EXISTING paragraph. You cannot insert text at arbitrary indices or at structural boundaries (e.g., table starts). The index must also be strictly less than the document's end index. To safely append text without index concerns, use append_to_end=true.
Replace All Text in Document
Tool to replace all occurrences of a specified text string with another text string throughout a Google Document. Use when you need to perform a global find and replace operation within a document.
Replace Image in Document
Tool to replace a specific image in a document with a new image from a URI. Use when you need to update an existing image within a Google Doc.
Unmerge Table Cells
Tool to unmerge previously merged cells in a table. Use this when you need to revert merged cells in a Google Document table back to their individual cell states.
Update Document Section Markdown
Tool to insert or replace a section of a Google Docs document with Markdown content. Use when you need to update only a section of a document by specifying start and optional end indices. Supports full Markdown formatting.
Update Document Style
Tool to update the overall document style, such as page size, margins, and default text direction. Use when you need to modify the global style settings of a Google Document.
Update Table Row Style
Tool to update the style of a table row in a Google Document. Use when you need to modify the appearance of specific rows within a table, such as setting minimum row height or marking rows as headers.
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).
Update Document Markdown
Replaces the entire content of an existing Google Docs document with new Markdown text; requires edit permissions for the document.
Update Tab Properties
Updates properties of a document tab such as title, parent tab, index, and icon emoji. Use this action when you need to rename a tab, change its emoji icon, move it within the tab hierarchy, or reorganize tab structure.

Deletes8

Remove something. This often cannot be undone.

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.
Delete Footer
Tool to delete a footer from a Google Document. Use when you need to remove a footer from a specific section or the default footer.
Delete Header
Deletes the header from the specified section or the default header if no section is specified. Use this tool to remove a header from a Google Document.
Delete Named Range
Tool to delete a named range from a Google Document. Use when you need to remove a previously defined named range by its ID or name.
Delete Tab
Deletes a tab from a Google Document. This action is irreversible — the tab cannot be recovered once removed. Use when you need to remove a tab and all its child tabs from a document's tab structure.
Delete Table Column
Tool to delete a column from a table in a Google Document. Use this tool when you need to remove a specific column from an existing table within a document.
Delete Table Row
Tool to delete a row from a table in a Google Document. Use when you need to remove a specific row from an existing table.
Update existing document
Applies programmatic edits, such as text insertion, deletion, or formatting, to a specified Google Doc using the `batchUpdate` API method.

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.

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.

Ready to put Google Docs to work?

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.

Use Google Docs with Snow

Snow is a personal AI assistant that builds real apps for you, and they can put Google Docs to work.

What Snow can do with Google Docs

These are the Google Docs operations Snow and the apps you build with it can run. Sign in to choose which ones Snow may run without asking.

Reads6

Look at your data without changing it.

Export Google Doc as PDF
Tool to export a Google Docs file as PDF using the Google Drive API. Use when you need to generate a PDF version of a Google Docs document for download or distribution. Note: Google Drive enforces a 10MB limit on export content.
Get Charts from Spreadsheet
Tool to retrieve a list of all charts from a specified Google Sheets spreadsheet. Use when you need to get chart IDs and their specifications for embedding or referencing elsewhere, such as in Google Docs.
Get document plain text
Retrieve a Google Doc by ID and return a best-effort plain-text rendering. Converts document structure into plain text including paragraphs, lists, and tables without requiring clients to traverse complex Docs API JSON.
Get document by id
Retrieves an existing Google Document by its ID; will error if the document is not found.
Get Document End Index
Retrieves the end index and paragraph structure of a Google Document or specific segment. Use this action when you need to determine valid insertion points for text operations, especially before using insertText requests. The end index represents the maximum boundary of the document body or specified segment (header, footer, footnote, or tab).
Search Documents
Search for Google Documents using various filters including name, content, date ranges, and more.

Creates6

Add something new to your account.

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 Document Markdown
Creates a new Google Docs document, optionally initializing it with a title and content provided as Markdown text.
Create Document Tab
Creates a new tab in a Google Docs document. Tabs allow you to organize document content into separate sections within a single document. Use this action when you need to add a new organizational tab to a document. When a tab is added at a specified index, all subsequent tabs' indexes are automatically incremented.
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 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.

Updates21

Change something that is already there.

Create and Populate Table in Google Doc
Creates a new table in a Google Document and populates its cells with provided text data in a single operation. Use this action when you need to insert a structured table with predefined content into a document. The action handles both table creation and cell population automatically, eliminating the need for separate operations.
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 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 Paragraph Bullets
Tool to remove bullets from paragraphs within a specified range in a Google Document. Use when you need to clear bullet formatting from a section of a document.
Insert Image in Table Cell
Inserts an image from a given URI into a specific table cell in a Google Document. Use this action when you need to add an image to a particular cell within a table. The action identifies the target cell by table start index, row index, and column index, then inserts the image at the specified position within that cell's content.
Insert Inline Image
Tool to insert an image from a given URI at a specified location in a Google Document as an inline image. Use when you need to add an image to a document programmatically.
Insert Page Break
Tool to insert a page break into a Google Document. Use when you need to start new content on a fresh page, such as at the end of a chapter or section.
Insert Table Column
Tool to insert a new column into a table in a Google Document. Use this tool when you need to add a column to an existing table at a specific location.
Insert Table in Google Doc
Tool to insert a table into a Google Document. Use when you need to add a new table at a specific location or at the end of a segment (like document body, header, or footer) in a document.
Insert Table Row
Inserts a new row into a table in a Google Document at a specified location. Use this action when you need to add a row to an existing table, either above or below a reference cell location.
Insert Text in Table Cell
Inserts text into a specific cell of a table in a Google Document by row and column position. Use this action when you need to add or update text content in a table cell at a known row and column index. To use this action, you must first retrieve the document structure using GOOGLEDOCS_GET_DOCUMENT_BY_ID to find the table's start index. Then specify the target cell by its zero-based row and column indices (e.g., row_index=0, column_index=0 for the top-left cell).
Insert Text into Document
Tool to insert a string of text at a specified location within a Google Document. Use when you need to add new text content to an existing document. IMPORTANT: Two ways to specify insertion location: 1. Use 'insertion_index' to insert at a specific position (index 1 is safe for document start) 2. Use 'append_to_end=true' to append text to the end of the document (recommended for appending) CRITICAL CONSTRAINT: When using insertion_index, the index MUST fall within the bounds of an EXISTING paragraph. You cannot insert text at arbitrary indices or at structural boundaries (e.g., table starts). The index must also be strictly less than the document's end index. To safely append text without index concerns, use append_to_end=true.
Replace All Text in Document
Tool to replace all occurrences of a specified text string with another text string throughout a Google Document. Use when you need to perform a global find and replace operation within a document.
Replace Image in Document
Tool to replace a specific image in a document with a new image from a URI. Use when you need to update an existing image within a Google Doc.
Unmerge Table Cells
Tool to unmerge previously merged cells in a table. Use this when you need to revert merged cells in a Google Document table back to their individual cell states.
Update Document Section Markdown
Tool to insert or replace a section of a Google Docs document with Markdown content. Use when you need to update only a section of a document by specifying start and optional end indices. Supports full Markdown formatting.
Update Document Style
Tool to update the overall document style, such as page size, margins, and default text direction. Use when you need to modify the global style settings of a Google Document.
Update Table Row Style
Tool to update the style of a table row in a Google Document. Use when you need to modify the appearance of specific rows within a table, such as setting minimum row height or marking rows as headers.
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).
Update Document Markdown
Replaces the entire content of an existing Google Docs document with new Markdown text; requires edit permissions for the document.
Update Tab Properties
Updates properties of a document tab such as title, parent tab, index, and icon emoji. Use this action when you need to rename a tab, change its emoji icon, move it within the tab hierarchy, or reorganize tab structure.

Deletes8

Remove something. This often cannot be undone.

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.
Delete Footer
Tool to delete a footer from a Google Document. Use when you need to remove a footer from a specific section or the default footer.
Delete Header
Deletes the header from the specified section or the default header if no section is specified. Use this tool to remove a header from a Google Document.
Delete Named Range
Tool to delete a named range from a Google Document. Use when you need to remove a previously defined named range by its ID or name.
Delete Tab
Deletes a tab from a Google Document. This action is irreversible — the tab cannot be recovered once removed. Use when you need to remove a tab and all its child tabs from a document's tab structure.
Delete Table Column
Tool to delete a column from a table in a Google Document. Use this tool when you need to remove a specific column from an existing table within a document.
Delete Table Row
Tool to delete a row from a table in a Google Document. Use when you need to remove a specific row from an existing table.
Update existing document
Applies programmatic edits, such as text insertion, deletion, or formatting, to a specified Google Doc using the `batchUpdate` API method.

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.

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.

Use Google Docs with Snow

What Snow can do with Google Docs

Reads6

Creates6

Updates21

Deletes8

Triggers

Related integrations

Google Drive

Google Sheets

Google Slides

Ready to put Google Docs to work?

Use Google Docs with Snow

What Snow can do with Google Docs

Reads6

Creates6

Updates21

Deletes8

Triggers

Related integrations

Google Drive

Google Sheets

Google Slides

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