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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Example Use Cases
These are the Google Docs actions Snow can use when building apps with you. Connecting an account does not make Snow run these on its own.
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
Creates a new Google Docs document, optionally initializing it with a title and content provided as Markdown text.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Triggers
These are the trigger events currently available for Google Docs.
Triggers when an existing Google Doc is deleted (moved to trash). This trigger monitors Google Docs and fires when documents are trashed.
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.
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.
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
Triggers when an existing Google Doc is updated or modified. This trigger monitors Google Docs and fires when documents are updated.
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.
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.
Triggers when a new Google Doc is added/created. This trigger monitors Google Docs and fires when new documents are detected.
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.
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.