Google Sheets

Use this guide to connect Google Sheets, discover and run the current tools, and configure Google authentication and quotas.

Connect Google Sheets and discover tools

Connect separately through Platform and Connect MCP. Connections made on the Platform side (dashboard.composio.dev) are isolated from the For You / connect.composio.dev/mcp flow. A Google Sheets connection created on Platform will not automatically appear in Connect MCP. To use Sheets through Connect MCP, ask the MCP server from the client to connect Google Sheets, complete the surfaced auth link, then retry discovery/execution.

Increase the tool-list limit when needed. get_raw_composio_tools returns 20 tools by default. Pass a larger limit to fetch the full Google Sheets tool set, for example .get_raw_composio_tools(toolkits=["GOOGLESHEETS"], limit=1000).

Use the spreadsheet ID for MCP operations. The Google Sheets MCP flow does not search through spreadsheets by name. Provide the spreadsheet ID directly in the chat/tool call when asking for operations such as getting sheet names.

Update and populate spreadsheets

Choose the current values tool for the operation. Use GOOGLESHEETS_VALUES_UPDATE for one range, GOOGLESHEETS_UPDATE_VALUES_BATCH for multiple ranges, or GOOGLESHEETS_SPREADSHEETS_VALUES_APPEND to append rows. To create and populate a new spreadsheet, call GOOGLESHEETS_CREATE_GOOGLE_SHEET1 and then one of the current values-update actions. GOOGLESHEETS_BATCH_UPDATE and GOOGLESHEETS_SHEET_FROM_JSON are deprecated.

Execute tools with the exact current slug. When executing Google Sheets tools, pass the exact current slug directly as the tool identifier, for example composio.tools.execute("GOOGLESHEETS_GET_SHEET_NAMES", executePayload). If a wrapper parameter like params.toolIdentifier is used, verify it resolves to the exact tool slug. The older GOOGLESHEETS_LIST_TABLES action is deprecated.

Configure Google authentication, versions, and quotas

Update old placeholder toolkit versions. If Google Sheets actions fail with permission errors and logs show the base version 00000000_00, switch to the latest Google Sheets toolkit version and check the toolkit versioning documentation.

Use Google Super for one shared Google connection. For the canonical guidance on using one connection across Google Workspace services, see Google Super is a unified Google Workspace toolkit.

Enter complete Google OAuth scope URLs. When configuring Google scopes manually, use the full scope URL. For Drive access, use https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive rather than shorthand values like /drive.

Treat Google provider quotas separately from Composio plan limits. A Google Sheets 429 can come from Google's API quotas even when the Composio account has remaining tool calls. Google currently documents 300 read requests and 300 write requests per minute per project, plus 60 reads and 60 writes per minute per user per project. Apply exponential backoff and check Google's current Sheets API limits before relying on those numbers.