get_drive_file_content

Retrieve and convert content from any Google Drive file by ID, including native Google Docs, Office files, and other formats, into plain text with metadata. Supports shared drives and handles decoding for readable output.

Instructions

Retrieves the content of a specific Google Drive file by ID, supporting files in shared drives.

• Native Google Docs, Sheets, Slides → exported as text / CSV.
• Office files (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx) → unzipped & parsed with std-lib to
  extract readable text.
• Any other file → downloaded; tries UTF-8 decode, else notes binary.

Args:
    user_google_email: The user’s Google email address.
    file_id: Drive file ID.

Returns:
    str: The file content as plain text with metadata header.

Input Schema

Name	Required	Description	Default
`file_id`	Yes
`service`	Yes
`user_google_email`	Yes

Input Schema (JSON Schema)

{
  "properties": {
    "file_id": {
      "title": "File Id",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "service": {
      "title": "service",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "user_google_email": {
      "title": "User Google Email",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "service",
    "user_google_email",
    "file_id"
  ],
  "title": "get_drive_file_contentArguments",
  "type": "object"
}

Google Workspace MCP Server

get_drive_file_content

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Input Schema

Input Schema (JSON Schema)

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