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Connect Google Drive to LinkedIn

Many people keep their raw material in Google Drive: videos, images, book notes and article drafts. Connecting Drive and LinkedIn turns that folder into a publishing queue, so a file you drop in becomes a post on your profile or company page at the time you chose.
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Ideas

What you can do with Google Drive and LinkedIn

Drive files and ideas turned into scheduled LinkedIn posts, with media kept in Drive. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
The moment it happensAI

Turn one idea into posts for every network

Send one idea and get a LinkedIn post published plus versions for other networks saved in Drive.

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On a schedule

Post videos and images from Drive to LinkedIn

Drop a video or image in a Drive folder and it is posted to LinkedIn on your schedule, then moved to a Posted folder.

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DailyAI

Publish a LinkedIn post with an image each day

Each day the next topic on your list becomes a LinkedIn post with a matching image, saved in Drive and published.

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Every 30 minutesAI

Turn new Drive docs into LinkedIn posts

Add book notes or an article draft to a Drive folder and AI turns it into a LinkedIn post.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with Google Drive and LinkedIn, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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Build your own

Build any Google Drive and LinkedIn automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what should happen between Google Drive and LinkedIn in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Post one file from the Drive folder each Tuesday and Thursday, oldest first, and skip anything over 200 MB.

Read the text of each new PDF in the folder and write a LinkedIn post with its three key points.

Use cases

Why people connect Google Drive and LinkedIn

How the two apps work together

  • A check every few minutes looks for new files in the Drive folder you choose.
  • The script uploads the media to LinkedIn with an AI-written or supplied caption.
  • It moves or renames the file in Drive after posting so it is not posted twice.

  • Creators with a library of media

    Videos and images stored in Drive are posted to LinkedIn one at a time. The library turns into a steady posting schedule.

  • Companies reusing decks and reports

    Charts and slides exported to Drive are posted to LinkedIn with a summary. Long content gets a second life.

  • Recruiting teams posting employer content

    Photos from team events dropped into a Drive folder are posted to the company page. Staff share content without page access.

  • Agencies managing client assets

    Client-approved media in Drive is posted to the client's page. Files and posts stay organised.

More apps

Google Drive, LinkedIn and other apps in one automation

An automation isn't limited to two apps. Add the next step in another app and it runs as part of the same automation.

Captions in a sheet

For each new image in my Drive folder, look up the caption in my Google Sheet by file name and post both to LinkedIn.

Team approval

When a new file lands in my Drive folder, post a preview and draft caption to #marketing and post it to LinkedIn after a checkmark reaction.

Post to LinkedIn and X

Post each new image in my Drive folder to LinkedIn and X with a caption written for each.

Setup

Connect Google Drive and LinkedIn once

Every idea on this page uses the same two connections, so you set them up once. If one is missing, your assistant tells you and links to the right place.

Google Drive

File storage

  1. At console.cloud.google.com, create a project and enable the Google Drive API.
  2. Set up the OAuth consent screen and add the scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.
  3. Create an OAuth client of type Web application with the redirect URI https://clickruntime.com/oauth/callback.
  4. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections, choose Google Drive and enter the client ID and secret, then connect.
  5. Prefer a service account? Under IAM & Admin → Service Accounts, create one and add a JSON key, share your folders or a Shared Drive with its email, and save the key as a secret on Connections & secrets.

LinkedIn

Social

  1. Create an app at linkedin.com/developers/apps and link it to a LinkedIn Page.
  2. Under Products, add Sign In with LinkedIn using OpenID Connect and Share on LinkedIn.
  3. Set the redirect to https://clickruntime.com/oauth/callback and use the scopes openid, profile, email and w_member_social.
  4. Under Connections in the ClickRuntime dashboard, enter the client ID and client secret and click Connect. Reconnect when the token runs out after 60 days.

FAQ

Questions about connecting Google Drive and LinkedIn

Which Drive files can it post?
Images and videos can be uploaded to LinkedIn as media, and Google Docs or text files can be read and turned into a written post. You pick the folder it watches.
What happens to a file after it is posted?
It is moved to a Posted folder, so the queue folder only holds what is still waiting and nothing is posted twice.
Can it post to a company page?
Yes, if you are an admin of the page and allow organisation posting when you connect LinkedIn. Otherwise posts go to your own profile.
Does it need access to my whole Drive?
It works from the folders you name. You connect through your own Google app, so you decide which Drive permissions it gets.
Can it post videos?
Yes. LinkedIn accepts video uploads through its API within LinkedIn's size and length limits.
Does it change my files?
Only if you ask it to move or rename them after posting.
Can different folders go to different pages?
Yes. Map each folder to a LinkedIn profile or company page you manage.

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