Thanks to my Paper Backup I save all kinds of invoices and other documents I get by snail mail in my Google Drive. But of course there are also invoices that get delivered by email. Usually they come as a PDF attachment. Wouldn't it be nice to save those PDFs in Google drive as well?

Unfortunately Google Mail's filters do not allow to automate this. Luckily there's Google Apps Script.

I wrote a script to automatically save all attachments from mails within a certain Gmail label to Google Drive. Here's how you can use it, too:

1. In Gmail create a new Label. eg. Invoices. Feel free to create sub labels for more fine grained control.
2. Create Filters to automatically sort your invoices into those labels
   • I recommend to pick the “has attachment” option
   • Be sure to use the “Star it” option - we use stars to track which mails have been processed already
   • you probably also want to apply the filter to matching conversations
3. Follow this link to see my script
4. Select “Make a copy” from the “File” menu
5. Give the needed permissions
6. Adjust the top two variables
   • GMAIL_LABEL is the label you created in Step 1
   • GDRIVE_FILE is the path and file name that will be used to save attachements (see below for the placeholders)
7. Check “Resources - Current Project's trigger” an make sure the main method is called periodically (up to you how often).

After a while your attachments should start showing up in your Google Drive.

For configuring the location you can use the following placeholders in GDRIVE_FILE:

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