Email by Zapier + Google Drive

Save new email attachments to Google Drive

You already keep all of your Google Docs and other important files in Google Drive. With this Zap, you can also save all of your email attachments to Google Drive automatically! Whenever someone emails you something important, forward it to the Zapier email address you'll set up with this Zap, and Zapier will automatically save it to Google Drive.

When this happens...
New Inbound Email
Triggers when an email is forwarded to your own custom zapiermail.com address.
TriggerInstant
automatically do this!
Upload File
Copies an existing file from another service to Google Drive.
ActionWrite

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Supported triggers and actions

What does this mean?

New Inbound Email
Triggers when an email is forwarded to your own custom
Trigger
Instant
New Read Receipt
Triggers when an email that you've enabled read receipts on via our
Trigger
Instant
Send Outbound Email
Send an email from your own custom
Action
Write
New File
Triggers when any new file is added (inside of any folder).
Trigger
Scheduled
New File in Folder
Triggers when a new file is added directly to a specific folder (but not its subfolders).
Trigger
Scheduled
New Folder
Triggers when a new folder is added directly to a specific folder (but not its subfolders).
Trigger
Scheduled
Updated File
Triggers when a file is updated in a specific folder (but not its subfolders).
Trigger
Scheduled
Copy File
Create a copy of the specified file.
Action
Write
Google Drive
Copies an existing file from another service to Google Drive.
Scheduled
Action
Google Drive
Create a new, empty folder.
Scheduled
Action
Google Drive
Move a file from one folder to another.
Scheduled
Action
Google Drive
Create a new file from plain text.
Scheduled
Action
Google Drive
Upload a file to Drive, that replaces an existing file.
Scheduled
Action
Google Drive
Adds a sharing scope to the sharing preference of a file. Does not remove existing sharing settings. Provides a sharing URL.
Scheduled
Action
Google Drive
Search for a specific file by name.
Scheduled
Action
Google Drive
Search for a specific folder by name.
Scheduled
Action
Google Drive
Finds or creates a specific file v2.
Scheduled
Action
Google Drive
Finds or creates a specific folder v2.
Scheduled
Action

About Email by Zapier

Send and receive email via a custom Zapier email address at "zapiermail.com". This is great for triggering off of emails and sending custom emails. (Max of 10 email sends per hour.) Have direct access to your own email servers? Check out our IMAP and SMTP services!

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About Google Drive

Google Drive is Google's file sync app that lets you store all of your files online alongside your Google Docs documents, and keep them synced with all of your devices.

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