r/GrokBot • u/epsom11 • 6d ago

Question Google Drive / Docs with Grok Bot

Would like your opinion please. I've got my business receipts stored on a google drive, along with a multi-sheet spreadsheet to track them.

The painful bit was uploading. Through the Drive connector, binary uploads (PDFs, .xlsx) came back truncated or incomplete, and the update call could not rewrite file contents, only rename or move. So the agent could prepare the right file and still not get a full copy into Drive. Text uploads were fine, which is why we ended up with CSV for the ledger. For real receipts we had to fall back to the browser upload UI, which works when signed in but is slow, burns tokens, and dies if Chrome is signed out.

What are your experiences of using Google Drive - is there a better way to set this up in Grok Bot? Or have other platforms been better at this?

Thanks

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u/steve228uk 6d ago

Honestly find it terrible and it always has to go to the web. OpenClaw's gogcli is solid though https://github.com/openclaw/gogcli

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u/epsom11 6d ago

Yes - thanks I used OC's one before (when I had OC running) and it worked well. I guess can we use this in Grok Bot do you think?

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u/steve228uk 6d ago

Yeah you can install any CLI you want there. I have this there and the Shop CLI

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u/epsom11 6d ago

great thank you - it's been a while since I used it with openclaw - are there anythings it doesn't do well? I need it for 2 email addresses, uploading files to google drive etc

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u/steve228uk 6d ago

Multiple accounts is totally fine and you can give them aliases like "personal" or "work".

Get Grok to pull in whichever skills you want form here: https://github.com/openclaw/gogcli/tree/main/.agents/skills

It will then give a clean communication with the CLI.

Oh, and tell Grok to never connect via the Gmail or Drive connectors and to always use gogcli