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Question

Trouble retrieving content from Google Docs in Zapier workflow

  • October 10, 2025
  • 3 replies
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My zaps used to work, but it suddenly failed.

I want to get the document content when there is a new file in my google drive folder. after I got the document content, i paste the content to Chatgpt. My file is word file .docx

  

 

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Troy Tessalone
Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
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  • Troy TessaloneZapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
  • Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
  • October 10, 2025

Hi ​@Tyra 

Guessing you are trying to get content for a file that is not a text based file.

You probably want to add a Filter as Zap step 2 to only filter for file types that are supported for getting content from. (e.g. GDocs vs Images)

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SamB
Community Manager
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  • SamBCommunity Manager
  • Community Manager
  • October 14, 2025

Hi and welcome to the Community, ​@Tyra! 😁 Did Troy’s suggestion of adding a Filter to only allow the Zap to continue for text based files sort things here?

Let us know how it went - happy to lend a hand you’re still stuck at all.

DennisWF
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  • DennisWFZapier Solution Partner
  • Zapier Solution Partner
  • October 15, 2025

​@Tyra another, more flexible option is to use the Transcribe action in AI by Zapier, and pass in the File (exists but not shown) object from Google Drive into the URL to Extract Content From field. This will parse the text from any file type and output it as markdown, using Gemini:

 

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