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Google Drive and Claude

Start a workflow in one and act in the other, with every step on the record. Ask your AI for it, or build it yourself.

Google Drive steps
13
Claude steps
3

Ideas for Google Drive and Claude

Each one is a real trigger and action. Ask your AI for any of them, in your own words, and it builds the workflow.

  • WhenNew fileThenStart an agent
  • WhenFile updatedThenAsk Claude
  • WhenNew fileThenWait for an agent's reply

What each app adds

Google Drive

Triggers

  • New fileRuns when a new file is added to Google Drive.
  • File updatedRuns when a file in Google Drive is changed: edited, replaced or renamed.

Actions

  • Search filesFind files by words in their names or indexed contents, across My Drive and shared drives. No file link is needed. Returns file names and links; use Read file to answer questions from their contents. Gets one page; to see more, run it again with the next page it gives.
  • Read fileRead the text of a Google Doc, presentation, spreadsheet's first tab, PDF, Word document or text file, so later steps can use it. Use a link from Search files or a sharing link. Does not change the file. To keep the file itself, use Download file. Up to 10 MB. A long text is read in parts: to read on, run it again from where it stopped.
  • Upload fileUpload a file to Drive and return a link to it.
  • Duplicate fileDuplicate a file in its own folder and return a link to the duplicate.
  • Delete fileDelete a file from Drive.
  • Move fileMove a file to a different folder.
See all 13 on the Google Drive page

Claude

Actions

  • Ask ClaudeAsk Claude to write, summarise or answer something, and get its reply.
  • Start an agentHand a task to an agent you've set up in the Claude Console. It works on its own in Anthropic's cloud, so follow this step with 'Wait for a Claude agent's reply' to get its answer.
  • Wait for an agent's replyWait until a Claude agent has finished its task, then get its reply. If the agent asks permission to use a tool, this step declines, as nobody is there to approve it.
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How to connect Google Drive and Claude

  1. Connect your AI

    Add Lodol to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP tool in one step, or open the editor.

  2. Connect Google Drive and Claude

    Sign in to each once in your workspace. Their keys are encrypted and used by name.

  3. Describe it, then turn it on

    Say what should happen, and when. Try a run, then turn it on; every run is traced.

Questions about Google Drive and Claude

Yes. Connect each app once in your Lodol workspace and any workflow can use both: 11 actions and 2 triggers in Google Drive, and 3 actions in Claude.

Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI tool connected to Lodol, in your own words, and it builds the workflow in your workspace. Or add the steps yourself in the visual editor, or start from one of the 1 template that already use both.

Free includes 100 runs a month. Builder starts at $18 a month for 2,500 runs and Pro at $120 for 10,000, and every plan has unlimited seats. A run counts once, however many steps it takes.

Connect Google Drive and Claude.

Ask for it in Slack, Claude or ChatGPT. Lodol does it every time, and tells you if anything breaks.

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