Google Drive

A Google Drive destination adds dated files to a folder in your Google Drive on every run: one file per dataset, in the format you choose. It suits teams who work from Drive — open an Excel file straight from the folder, share the folder with a client, or let another tool pick the files up. Google Drive destinations are included on the Team and Agency plans.

What you need

A Google account connected under Settings → Integrations with Google Drive access. Google Drive and Google Sheets use the same Google permission, so an account connected for one works for the other.

iSearchFrom asks Google only for access to files it creates. It cannot open, list or change any other file or folder in your Drive — which is why it always creates its own folder rather than writing into one you already have.

Settings

Setting	Notes
Google account	The connected account whose Drive receives the files. Use another Google account connects a new one.
Folder name	iSearchFrom exports by default. The folder is created with this name on the first run.
Format	CSV, Excel, JSON Lines, SQL or Parquet, as your plan allows.

Test connection checks that the account is connected and, once the folder exists, that it can still reach it.

How it works

• The first run creates the folder at the top of the connected account’s Drive. Every run after that adds its files to the same folder. You can rename it, move it or share it from Drive like any other folder; the export keeps finding it.

• If the folder is deleted or moved to the bin, the next run creates a new one.

• One file per dataset per run, named after the dataset, the day and the run:

  <dataset>_<YYYY-MM-DD>_<run_id>.<extension>

  For example:

  position_tracker-results_2026-09-30_0199a7c2-5b1e-7c3a-9f10-3d2b8e6a4c11.xlsx
  alerts_2026-09-30_0199a7c2-5b1e-7c3a-9f10-3d2b8e6a4c11.csv.gz

  • <dataset> is the dataset id with . replaced by -.
  • The date is the UTC day the run’s window ends.
  • CSV, JSON Lines and SQL files are gzipped (.csv.gz, .ndjson.gz, .sql.gz); Excel and Parquet files are not. Drive can’t preview a .gz file — for people who open files in Drive, choose Excel.

• A retried run replaces its own file instead of adding a second copy.

Files count towards the connected account’s Google storage. iSearchFrom never deletes files it has delivered — clear out old ones when you no longer need them.

Duplicates

Each run delivers only what is new since the last successful one, so the files add up to your complete history. A backfill with Run now re-sends an older window as new files, and those rows can repeat rows you already have. Every row keeps its row_id, so de-duplicate on it when you combine files.

Troubleshooting

Code	Likely cause
reconnect_required	The Google connection expired or was revoked. Reconnect it under Settings → Integrations; the destination resumes by itself.
access_denied	Google refused the write — for example, the account’s storage is full.
not_found	The folder could not be found. Check that the account can still open it.

See all error codes.

Related docs

• Exporting your data
• File formats
• Google Sheets