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🚀 Quickstart

Connect to Google Drive with Nango and see data flow in 2 minutes.

Create the integration

In Nango (free signup), go to Integrations -> Configure New Integration -> Google Drive.

Nango has credentials you can use for testing. Activate them in the dashboard.

Authorize Google Drive

Go to Connections -> Add Test Connection -> Authorize, then log in to Google Drive. Later, you’ll let your users do the same directly from your app.

Call the Google Drive API

Let’s make your first request to the Google Drive API (fetch a list of files). Replace the placeholders below with your secret key, integration ID, and connection ID:

cURL
Node

curl "https://api.nango.dev/proxy/drive/v3/files?pageSize=10" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <NANGO-SECRET-KEY>" \
  -H "Provider-Config-Key: <INTEGRATION-ID>" \
  -H "Connection-Id: <CONNECTION-ID>"

Install Nango’s backend SDK with npm i @nangohq/node. Then run:

import { Nango } from '@nangohq/node';

const nango = new Nango({ secretKey: '<NANGO-SECRET-KEY>' });

const res = await nango.get({
    endpoint: '/drive/v3/files',
    params: { pageSize: 10 },
    providerConfigKey: '<INTEGRATION-ID>',
    connectionId: '<CONNECTION-ID>'
});

console.log(res.data);

Or fetch credentials with the Node SDK or API.✅ You’re connected! Check the Logs tab in Nango to inspect requests.

Implement Nango in your app

Follow our Auth implementation guide to integrate Nango in your app.To obtain your own production credentials, follow the setup guide linked below.

📚 Google Drive Integration Guides

Nango maintained guides for common use cases.

How to register your own Google Drive OAuth app
Register an OAuth app with Google Drive and obtain credentials to connect it to Nango
Complete integration example with the Nango Sample App
See a production-ready Google Drive integration with file picker, webhooks, and file syncing. Includes a demo video walkthrough and GitHub repository.

Official docs: Google Drive API Documentation

🧩 Pre-built syncs & actions for Google Drive

Enable them in your dashboard. Extend and customize to fit your needs.

Changes

Function name	Description	Type	Source code
`get-changes-start-page-token`	Get the starting token for listing future changes	Action	🔗 Github
`list-changes`	List changes to files and shared drives	Action	🔗 Github

Comments

Function name	Description	Type	Source code
`create-comment`	Add a comment to a file	Action	🔗 Github
`delete-comment`	Delete a comment from a file	Action	🔗 Github
`get-comment`	Get a comment by ID	Action	🔗 Github
`list-comments`	List comments on a file	Action	🔗 Github
`update-comment`	Update a comment on a file	Action	🔗 Github

Drive

Function name	Description	Type	Source code
`create-folder`	Create a new folder in Google Drive	Action	🔗 Github
`get-about`	Get the user’s drive info and storage quota	Action	🔗 Github

Drives

Function name	Description	Type	Source code
`create-shared-drive`	Create a shared drive	Action	🔗 Github
`delete-shared-drive`	Delete a shared drive	Action	🔗 Github
`get-shared-drive`	Get a shared drive by ID	Action	🔗 Github
`list-shared-drives`	List shared drives the user can access, with cursor pagination and drive metadata like hidden, capabilities, and restrictions.	Action	🔗 Github

Files

Function name	Description	Type	Source code
`copy-file`	Copy a file to a destination	Action	🔗 Github
`delete-file`	Delete a file or folder from Google Drive	Action	🔗 Github
`empty-trash`	Permanently delete all trashed files	Action	🔗 Github
`find-file`	Search for files by name or query in Google Drive	Action	🔗 Github
`get-revision`	Get a file revision by ID	Action	🔗 Github
`list-files-non-unified`	List immediate files and folders for a folder ID, or root when omitted, with cursor pagination and shared-drive support.	Action	🔗 Github
`move-file`	Move a file to a different folder	Action	🔗 Github
`update-file`	Update a file’s metadata	Action	🔗 Github
`upload-document`	Upload plain text or base64 file content up to 5 MB, optionally into a folder with a description; defaults to root	Action	🔗 Github
`sync-files`	Sync file metadata for IDs in connection metadata files, or recursively for all files under folder IDs in folders. Supports shared drives.	Sync	🔗 Github

Folders

Function name	Description	Type	Source code
`find-folder`	Search for a folder by name or query	Action	🔗 Github
`sync-folders`	Sync root-level Google Drive folders from My Drive and shared drives	Sync	🔗 Github

Permissions

Function name	Description	Type	Source code
`delete-permission`	Remove a permission from a file	Action	🔗 Github
`get-permission`	Get a permission by ID	Action	🔗 Github
`list-permissions`	List permissions on a file	Action	🔗 Github
`update-permission`	Update a permission on a file	Action	🔗 Github
`sync-permissions`	Sync file permissions from Google Drive	Sync	🔗 Github

Shared Drives

Function name	Description	Type	Source code
`hide-shared-drive`	Hide a shared drive from the default view	Action	🔗 Github
`unhide-shared-drive`	Restore a hidden shared drive to default view	Action	🔗 Github
`update-shared-drive`	Update a shared drive’s metadata	Action	🔗 Github
`sync-shared-drives`	Sync shared drives from Google Drive	Sync	🔗 Github

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​🚀 Quickstart

​📚 Google Drive Integration Guides

​🧩 Pre-built syncs & actions for Google Drive

​Changes

​Comments

​Drive

​Drives

​Files

​Folders

​Permissions

​Shared Drives

🚀 Quickstart

📚 Google Drive Integration Guides

🧩 Pre-built syncs & actions for Google Drive

Changes

Comments

Drive

Drives

Files

Folders

Permissions

Shared Drives