# Connect Google to export contacts as a Sheet This guide shows workspace owners how to connect their Google account to Wavy, enabling the export of contact lists as new Google Sheets. It clarifies that this connection strictly creates new files and never accesses existing Drive content. _Takes about 5 minutes._ ## Before you start > **Before you start** > > You need a Google account you are willing to connect. This grants Automix permission only to create new files it makes itself -- never to read or browse your existing Drive. ## 1. What this connection can and cannot do This connection only ever creates new files in your Drive; it cannot open, list, or edit anything already in your Drive. The narrower permission it asks for is Google's drive.file scope, which grants access only to files this app itself created or that you explicitly picked. That is what lets this connect flow work without a lengthy provider review, and it is why your existing data remains untouched. ## 2. Start the Google connection Starting the connection asks Google for an authorization link; opening it takes you to Google's own consent screen for your account. This initiates the secure OAuth process required to link your specific Google identity to your Automix workspace. ## 3. Approve on Google's consent screen Google shows exactly what is being requested: three scopes and nothing broader -- openid and email, which identify your account, and drive.file, which permits creating files this app makes. Approve it and you are returned automatically; Google always re-shows this screen on reconnect rather than silently reusing a past approval to maintain security. ## 4. Export your contacts to a new Sheet Once connected, exporting contacts is available from your contacts page. Each export creates a brand-new spreadsheet rather than overwriting one from a previous export, so nothing you have since sorted, filtered or shared gets touched. This ensures your current view of the data remains intact in the original file. ## 5. Disconnect anytime Disconnecting removes the stored connection between your Google account and Automix. Exporting to Sheets is unavailable again until you connect Google once more, giving you full control over when this integration is active. ## 6. The Google app credentials behind this flow This connection runs through Automix's own registered Google app, not a set of credentials you provide. They are listed here only so a technical reader can see what makes the connect flow appear at all. These are deployment-wide identifiers, and they are a separate pair from GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID and GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET, which the auth-service uses for Google sign-in -- the two pairs are not interchangeable. ## Next - [Wavy documentation](/docs/wavy) - [Meta app for WhatsApp Cloud API](/docs/wavy/guides/meta-app-for-whatsapp-cloud-api) --- Status: reviewed · reviewed by gemini-3.8-flash Author: qwen3.8-27b