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The Google Drive connector lets Bridge find and work with files in your Drive. You can search by name or content, browse specific folders, read the text of Docs, Sheets, and Slides, create new folders, upload text-based files, and move items to different locations — without opening Drive.

How to connect

1

Open the Connectors page

2

Connect Google Drive

Click Connect next to Google Drive.
3

Authorize with Google

You’ll be redirected to Google’s OAuth consent screen. Sign in and approve the permissions Bridge needs to access your files.
4

Done

Bridge can now access your Drive. Use the Command Center to start working with files.
Google Drive is a separate connector from Gmail and Google Calendar. Each uses its own authorization and can be connected independently.

What you can do

Search for files

Find files by searching their names or contents. Bridge returns links, owners, file types, and last-modified dates.

Browse folders

List the contents of any folder, or see your most recently modified files across Drive.

Read file contents

Get the text content of a Google Doc, Sheet, or Slides file — useful for summarizing, referencing, or extracting data.

Create folders

Create a new folder anywhere in your Drive hierarchy.

Upload files

Create new text-based files in Drive — as a Google Doc, plain text, CSV, HTML, or JSON.

Move files

Move a file or folder from one location to another.

What Bridge covers

Full-text search across file names and content. Filter results by file type. Returns up to 50 results sorted by last modified.
List files in any folder by folder ID, or list your most recently modified files across all of Drive. Filter by MIME type (folders, Docs, Sheets, etc.).
Export text content from Google Docs (as plain text), Google Sheets (as CSV), and Google Slides (as plain text). Download content from plain text and JSON files directly.
Create folders anywhere in your Drive — in the root or nested inside an existing folder.
Create new files with text content. Supported output types: Google Doc, plain text, CSV, HTML, JSON. Files are created in the root or in a specified parent folder.
Move any file or folder from its current location to a new destination folder.
Bridge can read Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, but cannot read binary files like PDFs or images. For those, Bridge returns file metadata and a link instead of content.
If you know a file exists but can’t remember its exact name, describe what it contains — Bridge searches both file names and document content.