Recipe Save Email Attachments

Find Gmail messages with attachments and save them to a Google Drive folder.

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Install

$ npx skills add googleworkspace/cli --skill recipe-save-email-attachments

$ npx skills add googleworkspace/cli

The first command installs just this skill, by the name in its SKILL.md; the second installs the whole repository.

Save Gmail Attachments to Google Drive

PREREQUISITE: Load the following skills to execute this recipe: gws-gmail, gws-drive

Find Gmail messages with attachments and save them to a Google Drive folder.

Steps

Search for emails with attachments: gws gmail users messages list --params '{"userId": "me", "q": "has:attachment from:client@example.com"}' --format table
Get message details: gws gmail users messages get --params '{"userId": "me", "id": "MESSAGE_ID"}'
Download attachment: gws gmail users messages attachments get --params '{"userId": "me", "messageId": "MESSAGE_ID", "id": "ATTACHMENT_ID"}'
Upload to Drive folder: gws drive +upload --file ./attachment.pdf --parent FOLDER_ID

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Source

github.com/googleworkspace/cli, branch main, last pushed 17 September 2026.

Licence

Apache-2.0 — the text of every skill is reproduced unmodified, frontmatter included, under the upstream licence.

Discovery

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Heading repairs

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Shifted “2 headings” from h1 to h2 so the skill title is the only h1.

Spec compliance

Every skill satisfies the Agent Skills specification’s frontmatter rules.

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Signal

Install counts come from skills.sh. They measure downloads, not quality, and an unranked repository is not an unread one.

Agent surfaces

The whole issue is available as one markdown document at /googleworkspace/cli.md, and each skill at its own .md URL.

Publication

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Save Gmail Attachments to Google Drive

PREREQUISITE: Load the following skills to execute this recipe: gws-gmail, gws-drive

Find Gmail messages with attachments and save them to a Google Drive folder.

Steps

Search for emails with attachments: gws gmail users messages list --params '{"userId": "me", "q": "has:attachment from:client@example.com"}' --format table
Get message details: gws gmail users messages get --params '{"userId": "me", "id": "MESSAGE_ID"}'
Download attachment: gws gmail users messages attachments get --params '{"userId": "me", "messageId": "MESSAGE_ID", "id": "ATTACHMENT_ID"}'
Upload to Drive folder: gws drive +upload --file ./attachment.pdf --parent FOLDER_ID