# Answer about your list from a Google Drive file to Google Sheets with AI | InstaMaps
> Answer about your list from a Google Drive file to Google Sheets, in Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot or Gemini.
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# Answer about your list from a Google Drive file to Google Sheets
A plain-English question answered across the whole list, with the reading shown. Ask your AI in plain English: it reads a Google Drive file, InstaMaps does the location work, and the results land in Google Sheets.
Google Drive file
→
InstaMaps
Answer about your list
→
Google Sheets
Works inClaudeChatGPTCopilotGemini
[Add InstaMaps to your AI →](#setup)
Free connector · sign in with Google · about a minute
## The prompt
Using the rows in this CSV or Excel file in my Google Drive: , answer this: how many of our open jobs are in Leeds, and which are the five oldest?, and put the results in a new tab of this Google Sheet: .
Replace the parts in .
## What comes back
* The answer, with how the question was read
* The rows behind it
* Anything that can't be placed or answered comes back with the reason. Nothing is dropped.
## Set it up
### Answer about your list in Claude
Every plan, including Free. On Free, InstaMaps uses your one custom connector; Google Drive, Gmail and Google Calendar are directory connectors and don't count against it.
1. In Claude, open Settings, then Connectors, and choose "Add custom connector".
2. Name it InstaMaps and paste https://get-instamaps.com/mcp. Click Add.
3. Click Connect and continue with Google. You land back in Claude, ready to ask.
4. Paste the prompt above.
[Claude's own guide ↗](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11175166-get-started-with-custom-connectors-using-remote-mcp)
### Answer about your list in ChatGPT
Business, Enterprise and Edu workspaces (in beta). An admin turns on developer mode first: Workspace Settings, then Permissions & Roles, then Connected Data.
1. Go to chatgpt.com/plugins, click +, then "Add custom MCP server".
2. Name it InstaMaps. Under Connection, enter https://get-instamaps.com/mcp as the server URL and choose OAuth.
3. Click "I understand and want to continue", then "Create as a plugin", and install it. Sign in with Google when asked.
4. Paste the prompt above.
[ChatGPT's own guide ↗](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/custom-mcp-server)
### Answer about your list in Microsoft Copilot and Teams
Through Copilot Studio, with a Copilot Studio licence. Your Microsoft 365 admin approves the agent before the rest of the organisation can use it.
1. In Copilot Studio, open your agent, then Tools, "Add a tool", "New tool", and choose Model Context Protocol.
2. Name it InstaMaps, enter https://get-instamaps.com/mcp as the server URL, choose OAuth 2.0 with dynamic discovery, then Create and "Add to agent".
3. Publish the agent, then under Channels choose "Teams and Microsoft Copilot" and "Add channel". Share it from Availability options.
4. Paste the prompt above.
[Microsoft Copilot and Teams's own guide ↗](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-studio/mcp-add-existing-server-to-agent)
### Answer about your list in Gemini
The Gemini app with a personal Google account (US, 18 and over, English). Work accounts use Gemini Enterprise, where an admin adds InstaMaps: write to hello@get-instamaps.com for the sign-in details it needs.
1. On gemini.google.com, open Settings, then Connected Apps.
2. Under Custom apps, click "Add a custom app" and enter https://get-instamaps.com/mcp. Click Next and sign in with Google.
3. In a chat, type @ and pick InstaMaps to use it.
4. Paste the prompt above.
[Gemini's own guide ↗](https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/17209137)
## Before you start
Reading a Google Drive file
Share the file with InstaMaps, or set it to "anyone with the link can view". InstaMaps reads it straight from Drive.
Writing to Google Sheets
InstaMaps writes to the sheet itself: share it with the address the answer gives you, as Editor. It adds new dated columns or a new tab, and never overwrites a cell.
## Good to know
* Works on the whole list, however long, because InstaMaps reads it directly.
* The connector is free: 5,000 tool calls a day per person, and a whole sheet read by link counts as one call.
## Related workflows
[→Answer about your list in Google Sheets](/workflows/google-sheets-ask-the-table-to-google-sheets)[→Answer about your list from Google Sheets to Gmail](/workflows/google-sheets-ask-the-table-to-gmail)[→Answer about your list from a Google Drive file to Gmail](/workflows/google-drive-file-ask-the-table-to-gmail)[→Geocoded address list from a Google Drive file to Google Sheets](/workflows/google-drive-file-geocode-to-google-sheets)[→Radius filter from a Google Drive file to Google Sheets](/workflows/google-drive-file-radius-filter-to-google-sheets)[→Mileage log from a Google Drive file to Google Sheets](/workflows/google-drive-file-road-mileage-to-google-sheets)
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