Google Chat API integration for messaging and collaboration in Google Workspace
Completes the import process for an import-mode Google Chat space and makes it visible to users. Use this action at the end of a data migration into Google Workspace, after all messages and memberships have been imported into a space that was created with `importMode: true`. Requires user authentication with domain-wide delegation (service-account flow) and the `chat.import` OAuth scope. Cannot be called with regular user OAuth.
Creates a custom emoji in Google Chat for use within a Google Workspace organization. An administrator must enable custom emojis for the organization.
Creates a message with text or cards in an existing Google Chat space, up to 32,000 bytes, or replies to a thread. Named-thread replies default to failing if the thread is missing; use GOOGLE_CHAT_SET_UP_SPACE to create a direct-message space first.
Creates an emoji reaction on a Google Chat message. Use this action when you need to add an emoji reaction (like 👍, ❤️, or 🎉) to an existing message in a Google Chat space. Either emoji_unicode or emoji_custom_id is required, but not both. This action is useful for acknowledging messages, voting on ideas, expressing emotions in response to messages, or building interactive message features in Google Chat bots.
Creates a custom section in Google Chat for organizing conversations in the navigation panel. Use when you need to create a new custom section to organize spaces and direct messages in the user's Chat sidebar.
Creates a named space in Google Chat. The calling user is automatically added as a member and space manager. For a group chat or direct message, use GOOGLE_CHAT_SET_UP_SPACE instead. Use this action when you need to create a discoverable named space for team collaboration or project discussions. For group conversations without a named space, use GOOGLE_CHAT_SET_UP_SPACE. Note: If you receive the error ALREADY_EXISTS when creating a space, try a different displayName. The displayName must be unique within the organization.
Creates a membership for a user, Chat app, or Google Group in a space. When creating a membership, if the member has auto-accept turned off, they're invited and must accept the invitation before joining. Use this action when you need to add a new member to a Google Chat space. This can be used to invite individual users, add Chat apps, or add Google Groups to a space. If the member requires acceptance, they will receive an invitation. Note: `parent` must be the resource name of a space that already exists - this action does not create one. To start a new direct message with a user, use GOOGLE_CHAT_SET_UP_SPACE instead, which creates the DM space and adds the member in one call. Note: App authentication cannot add users external to the Workspace organization, add Google Groups, or add Chat apps to a space.
Deletes a custom emoji from Google Chat. By default, users can only delete custom emojis they created. Emoji managers assigned by the administrator can delete any custom emoji in the organization. Use this action when you need to permanently remove a custom emoji that is no longer needed. This action is irreversible — once deleted, the custom emoji cannot be recovered.
Removes a user, Google Group, or app membership from a Google Chat space using its membership resource name. The request can use Google Workspace administrator privileges when authorized. A membership that is not found is reported as an error.
Deletes a message from a Google Chat space; with user authentication, the force option can also delete its threaded replies. Deletion is irreversible, and permitted actions depend on the caller's authentication and permissions.
Deletes a reaction to a message. Use when you need to remove a reaction that was previously added to a message. Users can only delete their own reactions. This action is irreversible — once the reaction is deleted, it cannot be recovered.
Deletes a custom section from Google Chat by its ID. This action is irreversible — once a section is deleted, it cannot be recovered. If the section contains items (such as spaces), they are moved to Google Chat's default sections and are not deleted. Use when you need to remove a custom section that is no longer needed.
Deletes a named space from Google Chat. Always performs a cascading delete, which means that the space's child resources like messages and memberships are also deleted. Use this action when you need to permanently remove a Google Chat space and all associated data. This action is irreversible — the space and all its messages and memberships cannot be recovered once deleted.
Downloads the bytes of a Google Chat message attachment via the media API. Use this after `get_attachment` to fetch the actual file content for an attachment. The `resource_name` parameter is the `attachmentDataRef.resourceName` returned by `get_attachment`. Returns the downloaded file. The download endpoint adds `?alt=media` automatically, which is required by Google to return raw bytes rather than the JSON Media resource.
Returns the existing direct message space with the specified user. Use this action when you need to find an existing DM space with a particular user, such as when checking if a DM already exists before creating one or when you need the space resource name for subsequent operations. If no direct message space exists with the specified user, this action returns a NOT_FOUND (404) error. Note: This only finds existing DM spaces - it does not create a new one. To start a new DM (or safely get-or-create one), use the GOOGLE_CHAT_SET_UP_SPACE action instead.
Finds group chat spaces whose human memberships contain exactly the calling user and the specified users. Results are paginated.
Gets the metadata of a Google Chat message attachment. Returns the attachment's content type, filename, source, and references that can be used to download the file via the media API. To fetch the binary bytes of the attachment, pass the returned `attachmentDataRef.resourceName` to the `download_media` action. Requires Chat app authentication (the `chat.bot` scope) — this endpoint is not callable with regular user OAuth.
Returns details about a membership in a space. Use this action when you need to retrieve information about a specific member's relationship with a Google Chat space, including their role, state, and user details.
Returns details about a custom emoji in Google Chat. Custom emojis are only available for Google Workspace accounts, and the administrator must turn custom emojis on for the organization. Use this action when you need to retrieve information about a specific custom emoji, such as its name, unique identifier, or temporary image URL. This is useful for displaying emoji details or verifying emoji existence before performing other operations. Note: The `payload` field is only populated when creating or updating custom emojis and is not returned when getting emoji details.
Returns details about a specific message in a Google Chat space. Use this action when you need to retrieve the full content, sender information, thread details, and other metadata for a particular message. Requires user authentication with an appropriate Google Chat OAuth scope.
Retrieves details of a specific Google Chat space, including its display name, description, membership count, threading state, and available configuration. Administrator access can be requested when authorized; some response fields depend on the scopes used.
Returns an event from a Google Chat space. The event payload contains the most recent version of the resource that changed. Use this action when you need to retrieve details about a specific space event, such as a new message, membership change, reaction, or space update. If the resource was modified after the event occurred, the server returns the updated resource in the event payload. Note: The `permissionSettings` field is not returned in the Space object of the Space event.
Gets the notification settings for a user in a specific space. Use when you need to retrieve the caller's space notification setting, including whether notifications are muted and what type of notifications are enabled. Requires user authentication with the `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.users.spacesettings` OAuth scope.
Returns details about a user's read state within a space. Use this action when you need to identify which messages in a space have been read or unread by the user.
Returns details about a user's read state within a thread. Use this action when you need to identify which messages in a specific thread have been read or unread by the user.
Lists custom emojis visible to the authenticated user in Google Chat. Use this action when you need to retrieve all custom emojis available in Google Chat for the authenticated user. This is useful for displaying available emojis, filtering by creator, or enumerating organization-specific custom emojis. Supports pagination via pageSize and pageToken parameters. By default, returns up to 25 emojis.
Lists non-system messages from one Google Chat space, with creation-time or thread filtering and a next-page token. It does not search message text or filter by sender; use GOOGLE_CHAT_SEARCH_MESSAGES for text search. Declared OAuth requirements include a Chat messages scope and directory.readonly.
Lists a page of emoji reactions on a specific Google Chat message. Results can be filtered by emoji type or user, and a page token can be used to retrieve subsequent pages.
Lists all items (such as spaces) within a specified section of a user's Google Chat. Use when you need to retrieve all items grouped under a section in Google Chat, or when implementing pagination to fetch all items across multiple pages. Sections can be system sections like 'default-spaces' or custom sections created by the user. Requires user authentication with the `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.users.sections.readonly` (read-only) or `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.users.sections` (full access) OAuth scope.
Lists all sections available to the authenticated user in Google Chat. Use this action when you need to retrieve all sections for organizing conversations in the navigation panel. Sections include custom sections created by the user and system sections like default direct messages, default spaces, and default apps. Requires user authentication with one of the following OAuth scopes: - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.users.sections - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.users.sections.readonly
Lists events from a Google Chat space. Use when you need to retrieve historical events such as new messages, membership changes, or reactions from a specific Google Chat space. The filter parameter is required and must specify event type filters. Note: This action requires specifying event type filters in the filter parameter. Supported event types include message events (created, updated, deleted), membership events (created, updated, deleted), and reaction events.
Lists a page of memberships in a Google Chat space, with optional role or member-type filters and options to include Google Groups or invited members. Use the returned nextPageToken to fetch subsequent pages.
Lists a page of Google Chat spaces the authenticated user belongs to, using the chat.spaces or chat.spaces.readonly OAuth scope. Group chats and direct messages are not listed until the first message is sent.
Moves a space from one section to another in Google Chat. Use when organizing spaces into different sections, such as moving a space from the default-spaces section to a custom user-created section. The action updates the section membership of the specified space item.
Changes the sort order of a section in the Google Chat sidebar. Use when you need to reorder sections in the sidebar. Either sortOrder (absolute position) or relativePosition (START/END) must be provided to specify the new position.
Updates a Google Chat message using a field mask, with support for text, cards, attachments, and other supplied properties. It can request creation of a missing message using a client-assigned ID.
Searches for messages across Google Chat spaces the caller has access to. Use this action to find messages by keyword, sender, space, attachment presence, or mentions, instead of paging through ListMessages for a single space. Excludes private messages, Chat app messages, messages from blocked users, and messages in muted spaces. Requires user authentication with one of the following core OAuth scopes: - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.messages - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.messages.readonly Some filters and FULL-view metadata require the additional scopes documented on their request fields. Display-name enrichment is best-effort and optional.
Searches Google Chat spaces using filters such as display name, customer, creation time, activity, history state, and space type. Searches can use administrator access across a Workspace organization or user access to spaces the caller belongs to.
Creates a Google Chat named space, group chat, human DM, or calling-app DM and can add initial members. The caller is added automatically. Named spaces require displayName. Group chats require at least two memberships. Human DMs require exactly one HUMAN membership. For a calling-app DM, set singleUserBotDm to true and omit memberships. An existing human DM is returned. Google groups can only join named spaces. This is the only action that creates DIRECT_MESSAGE or GROUP_CHAT spaces; CREATE_SPACE, CREATE_MESSAGE, and CREATE_MEMBER require an existing space. Requires user authentication with one of the following OAuth scopes: - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.spaces - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.spaces.create
Updates a user's membership role in a Google Chat space, such as changing between member and manager.
Updates a Google Chat message's text, cards, or other supported properties using an update mask. With allowMissing enabled, it can create a message when the specified message is missing; permitted updates depend on authentication and permissions.
Updates a section's display name in Google Chat. This action uses patch semantics for partial updates. Use when you need to rename an existing custom section in Google Chat. Only sections of type 'CUSTOM_SECTION' can be updated. System sections (like 'default-direct-messages', 'default-spaces', 'default-apps') cannot have their display names modified. Requires user authentication with the 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.users.sections' scope.
Updates an existing Google Chat space's display name, description, guidelines, history state, or predefined permission settings using an update mask. It can request administrator access when authorized.
Updates the notification settings for a user in a space. Use when you need to modify how a user receives notifications in a specific space, such as muting a noisy channel or changing the notification level to only important messages. Requires user authentication with the chat.users.spacesettings scope.
Updates a user's read state within a space, used to mark messages as read or unread. Use this action when you need to programmatically mark a Google Chat space as read or update the user's read position in a space. Note: To mark a space as unread, set lastReadTime to a value earlier than the latest message timestamp. To mark as read, set it to any value later than the latest message.
Uploads a file of up to 200 MB as an attachment to a Google Chat space using the multipart media upload endpoint; the returned attachment upload token can be used in a subsequent message. Requires user authentication and either the chat.messages or chat.messages.create scope.
The Google Chat integration connects your Dench AI CRM directly to Google Chat, so agents can read and act on your Google Chat data as part of everyday work — answering questions in chat, keeping your CRM in sync, and running automations without anyone copying data between tools.
46 actions are available for agents to invoke on your behalf. Every call runs through Google Chat's own authorization, scoped to the account you connect.
Sign in to your Dench workspace and open Integrations.
Find Google Chat and click Connect — you'll authorize access through Google Chat's own sign-in flow. No API keys or code required.
Ask an agent to use Google Chat in chat, or call it from an automation.
Manage or disconnect the connection any time from workspace settings.
The Dench Google Chat integration connects your AI CRM to Google Chat, so AI agents can work with your Google Chat data as part of chats, automations, and CRM workflows. You connect your account once, and every agent in your workspace can use it — governed by your workspace permissions.
The Google Chat integration currently exposes 46 actions, including Complete Space Import, Create Custom Emoji, Create Message, Create Reaction, Create section, and Create Space. Agents invoke them on your behalf from chat or from automations.
No. You connect Google Chat from your Dench workspace using Google Chat's own sign-in and authorization flow — no API keys to copy, no glue code to maintain.
Connections are authorized through Google Chat's own authentication flow, and Dench stores only the authorization needed to act on your behalf. You can review and disconnect the Google Chat connection from your workspace settings at any time.