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Automate Google Forms

Get your form responses to the people who act on them. Sign-ups, survey answers and quiz results get passed on as they come in, low scores get flagged, and open feedback is grouped into themes you can read in a minute. Describe what you want to your AI assistant, check what it will do, and it keeps running with your laptop closed.

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every 5 minutes, check my Event Signup form for new responses and post each one to #events in Slack with the question titles.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

Ideas

What you can automate in Google Forms

Responses passed on soon after they're submitted, quiz scores checked against your threshold, and a weekly read of what people are telling you. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
Every 5 minutes

Post new form responses in Slack

Each new response appears in your channel with every answer labelled by its question.

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WeeklyAI

Get a weekly summary of form feedback

Every Friday you get the main themes and overall mood from that week's feedback responses.

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Every 15 minutes

Get alerted on low quiz scores

You hear when someone scores below your line, so you can follow up with them.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

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

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Build your own

Build any Google Forms automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what Google Forms should do 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

Every hour, check new Google Forms responses, have AI score each application from 1 to 5 against my criteria, and email me only those that score 4 or above.

When a new Google Forms response comes in, post the answers to a Slack channel.

When someone submits my intake Google Form, create a client folder in Google Drive, add them to my Google Sheet, and send a welcome email from Gmail.

Beyond chat

Have Google Forms work when you're not in the chat

Connecting Google Forms to ChatGPT or Claude lets you ask about it while you chat. ClickRuntime handles the part that should happen on its own: checks on a schedule and actions on each new event, set up from the same chat and running after you close it.

Setup

Connect Google Forms

You connect Google Forms through your own OAuth app in Google Cloud. You choose its scopes, and the automation sees the forms your Google account can see.

Google Forms

Forms / Surveys

  1. At console.cloud.google.com, enable the Google Forms API in your project.
  2. Set up the OAuth consent screen and add the scopes forms.body and forms.responses.readonly.
  3. Create a Web OAuth client with the redirect URI https://clickruntime.com/oauth/callback.
  4. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections, choose Google Forms and enter your client ID and client secret.

Good to know

Google Forms limits that affect automations

  • While your OAuth app is in Testing mode, its tokens expire after 7 days and the automation stops. Publish the app as In production, or make it Internal on Google Workspace, to avoid this.
  • New responses are picked up by checking the form on a schedule, every 5 to 15 minutes, not the instant they're submitted.
  • Scores only exist on forms set up as quizzes, so score alerts don't work on ordinary surveys.

FAQ

Questions about automating Google Forms

What can ClickRuntime see in my Google Forms?
The forms your Google account can reach through your OAuth app, with the scopes you added. With `forms.responses.readonly` it reads responses and quiz scores, and with `forms.body` it can read and edit the questions.
How quickly does a new response show up?
Within a few minutes. Automations check the form for new responses every 5 to 15 minutes and only pass on the ones they haven't seen.
Why did my automation stop after a week?
Your OAuth app is probably still in Testing mode, where Google expires tokens after 7 days. Set it to In production in the consent screen settings and reconnect.
Can it work with quiz scores?
Yes, on forms set up as quizzes. It can read each respondent's total score and alert you when it's above or below the line you set.
Do I need AI for Google Forms automations?
No. Response alerts and score checks run without it. Summarising open answers into themes uses the AI that comes with every ClickRuntime plan, so you don't need your own AI key.
Is this a Google Forms connector for ChatGPT or Claude?
Not for chatting with Google Forms data. A chat connector lets your assistant read and change Google Forms while you're in the conversation. ClickRuntime is for the work that should happen without you: you set up an automation from the chat once, and it keeps running on a schedule or on each Google Forms event.

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