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Search Google Drive

Automatically search Google Drive on drive.google.com. Search Google Drive by free text in names and contents, or filter by name, file type, owner and modified-date range. Returns each match's id, name, type, size, dates, owner, parent folders and link, one page at a time: pass nextPageToken back as pageToken to read the next page. No match returns an empty list.

Input

name optional

Only files whose name contains this text.

type optional

Only files of this type.

owner optional

Only files owned by this email address, or "me".

query optional

Free text, matched by Drive against file names and contents.

pageSize optional

Number of results per page, up to 1000.

Default: 100
pageToken optional

The nextPageToken of the previous page, to read the next one.

modifiedAfter optional

Only files modified on or after this date, as YYYY-MM-DD.

modifiedBefore optional

Only files modified before this date, as YYYY-MM-DD.

Output

count required

Files on this page.

files required
query required

The search as Drive received it.

nextPageToken required

Pass it as pageToken to read the next page. Null on the last page.

FAQ

Search Google Drive by free text in names and contents, or filter by name, file type, owner and modified-date range. Returns each match's id, name, type, size, dates, owner, parent folders and link, one page at a time: pass nextPageToken back as pageToken to read the next page. No match returns an empty list.
Ask an AI agent connected to Reduck to run reduck/drive.google.com/search_files, or run it from a terminal with the Reduck CLI: npx @reduck-ai/cli@latest run --script reduck/drive.google.com/search_files
You do not need one. "Search Google Drive" drives the real drive.google.com pages in a browser, so it works whether or not drive.google.com offers an API for this.
Optional: name, type, owner, query, pageSize, pageToken, modifiedAfter, modifiedBefore.
It returns count, files, query, nextPageToken.
Yes. It acts as you on drive.google.com: on your own Chrome it reuses your session, and on a Reduck-hosted browser it loads the drive.google.com cookies saved by the Reduck extension.
It only reads. It looks things up on drive.google.com and changes nothing there.
Ask an AI agent connected to Reduck to run reduck/drive.google.com/search_files, or run it from a terminal with the Reduck CLI: npx @reduck-ai/cli@latest run --script reduck/drive.google.com/search_files
It is part of Reduck's official curated catalogue.

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