Google Drive
What Remly indexes from Drive, the file types and size caps, and how OCR works.
Status: Available · Last verified: 31 July 2026
Google Drive is one of the connectors you can use today. Remly indexes the documents in your Drive so they are searchable by meaning and can ground Ask answers.
Connecting
In the web app, open Connections, click Google Drive, and complete the Google OAuth flow. Remly requests read-only access. It does not request write, share, or delete scopes, so it cannot modify or remove anything in your Drive.
What gets indexed
Google-native files: Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Drawings, and Apps Script.
Uploaded files: .pdf, .docx, .txt, .md, .xlsx, .csv, .pptx, and common image formats with text extracted by OCR.
Size caps
Caps are enforced before download, so an oversized file never consumes bandwidth:
| Format | Cap |
|---|---|
| 25 MB | |
| PPTX | 25 MB |
| DOCX | 10 MB |
| XLSX | 5 MB |
| Images | 10 MB |
Files over the cap are skipped and appear in the Library with an error status, so you can see what was left out rather than silently missing it.
Encrypted PDFs cannot be processed and are skipped with a pdf_encrypted error status.
OCR
Images are OCR'd by sending them to OpenAI for text extraction. Extracted text is cached so that re-indexing the same image does not repeat the work.
Text extracted from images is treated like any other indexed content: it is deleted when you disconnect this connector, and at the 30-day purge if you delete your account. See privacy and security.
Sync
Hourly (default), every six hours, daily at a time you set, or manual only. Syncs are incremental after the first pass.
Whether Drive will support webhook-driven real-time sync is not settled.
Permissions
Remly snapshots each document's sharing settings at index time and filters results by your access at query time. Sharing changes in Drive are picked up by the next incremental sync, so there is a window between a change in Drive and the next sync where results can reflect the older snapshot.
Rate limits
Remly stays within Google's per-user limit of 1,000 queries per 100 seconds and retries on 429 responses.
When something goes wrong
| Symptom | What to do |
|---|---|
| Card shows Reconnect | Google returned invalid_grant. Reconnect from the Connections page. |
| A file never appears in results | Check the Library for an error status on it – it may be over the size cap or an encrypted PDF. |
| Recent edits are not reflected | Run Sync now. Indexed content follows the sync schedule. |
Disconnecting
Connections → Google Drive → Disconnect revokes the token with Google and immediately and permanently deletes this connector's sources, documents, text chunks, embeddings, and permissions. Your account and every other connector are unaffected, and nothing in Drive itself is touched. You can also revoke access at myaccount.google.com/permissions.
This is not the same as deleting your account, which follows a different path with a 30-day recovery window.
Plan requirement
Google Drive is a cloud connector and requires the Full tier. See Plans and billing.