• API documentation
• Notes
• Create a Form
• Update a Form
• Display Forms
• Display Form Responses
• Combine Form Information

• https://developers.google.com/forms/api/reference/rest

To use these commands you must add the 'Forms API' to your project and update your service account authorization.

Forms are identified by their <DriveFileID>.

gam update project
gam user [email protected] update serviceaccount

• <DriveFileEntity>
• <UserTypeEntity>

<DriveFileParentAttribute> ::=
        (parentid <DriveFolderID>)|
        (parentname <DriveFolderName>)|
        (anyownerparentname <DriveFolderName>)|
        (teamdriveparentid <DriveFolderID>)|
        (teamdriveparent <SharedDriveName>)|
        (teamdriveparentid <SharedDriveID> teamdriveparentname <DriveFolderName>)|
        (teamdriveparent <SharedDriveName> teamdriveparentname <DriveFolderName>))|
        (teamdriveparentid <DriveFolderID>)|(teamdriveparent <SharedDriveName>)|
        (teamdriveparentid <SharedDriveID> teamdriveparentname <DriveFolderName>)|
        (teamdriveparent <SharedDriveName> teamdriveparentname <DriveFolderName>)

<Time> ::=
        <Year>-<Month>-<Day>(<Space>|T)<Hour>:<Minute>:<Second>[.<MilliSeconds>](Z|(+|-(<Hour>:<Minute>))) |
        (+|-)<Number>(m|h|d|w|y) |
        never|
        now|today

gam <UserTypeEntity> create form
        title <String> [description <String>] [isquiz [Boolean>]
        [drivefilename <DriveFileName>] [<DriveFileParentAttribute>]
        [(csv [todrive <ToDriveAttribute>*]) | returnidonly]

If drivefilename <DriveFileName> is not specified, the file will be named <String> from title.

By default, the user, form title and file name/ID values are displayed on stdout.

• csv [todrive <ToDriveAttribute>*] - Write user, file ID, file name, form title and responderUri values to a CSV file.
• returnidonly - Display just the file ID of the created file as output

To retrieve the file ID with returnidonly:

Linux/MacOS
fileId=$(gam user [email protected] create form title "xyz" ... returnidonly)
Windows PowerShell
$fileId = & gam user [email protected] create form title "xyz" ... returnidonly

The file ID will only be valid when the return code of the command is 0; program accordingly.

Select forms with <DriveFileEntity>:

• <DriveFileID> - Update a specific form
• my_forms - Update all forms owned by the user

gam <UserTypeEntity> update form <DriveFileEntity>
        [title <String>] [description <String>] [isquiz [Boolean>]

Select forms with <DriveFileEntity>:

• <DriveFileID> - Display responses for a specific form
• my_forms - Display responses for all forms owned by the user

gam <UserTypeEntity> show forms <DriveFileEntity>
        [formatjson]

By default, Gam displays the information as an indented list of keys and values.

• formatjson - Display the form in JSON format

gam <UserTypeEntity> print forms <DriveFileEntity> [todrive <ToDriveAttribute>*]
        (addcsvdata <FieldName> <String>)*
        [formatjson [quotechar <Character>]]

• addcsvdata <FieldName> <String> - Add additional columns of data from the command line to the output

By default, when writing CSV files, Gam uses a quote character of double quote ". The quote character is used to enclose columns that contain the quote character itself, the column delimiter (comma by default) and new-line characters. Any quote characters within the column are doubled. When using the formatjson option, double quotes are used extensively in the data resulting in hard to read/process output. The quotechar <Character> option allows you to choose an alternate quote character, single quote for instance, that makes for readable/processable output. quotechar defaults to gam.cfg/csv_output_quote_char. When uploading CSV files to Google, double quote " should be used.

Select forms with <DriveFileEntity>:

• <DriveFileID> - Display responses for a specific form
• my_forms - Display responses for all forms owned by the user

gam <UserTypeEntity> show formresponses <DriveFileEntity>
        [filtertime.* <Time>] [filter <String>]
        [countsonly|formatjson]

By default, GAM displays form response details, use the countsonly option to get the number of responses but no response details.

By default, GAM displays all form responses, you can filter by response time:

• timestamp > <Time> - Display all form responses submitted after <Time>
• timestamp >= <Time> - Display all form responses submitted at or after <Time>

For example, to get the form responses submitted since the beginning of the year:

• filter timestamp >= 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z

Use the filtertime.* <Time> option to allow times, usually relative, to be substituted into the filter <String> option. The characters following filtertime can be any combination of lowercase letters and numbers.

For example, to get the responses subnitted in the last four hours:

• filtertime4h -4h filter "timestamp >= #filtertime4h#

By default, Gam displays the information as an indented list of keys and values.

• formatjson - Display the form response in JSON format

gam <UserTypeEntity> print formresponses <DriveFileEntity> [todrive <ToDriveAttribute>*]
        (addcsvdata <FieldName> <String>)*
        [filtertime.* <Time>] [filter <String>]
        [countsonly|(formatjson [quotechar <Character>])]

By default, GAM displays form response details, use the countsonly option to get the number of responses but no response details.

• addcsvdata <FieldName> <String> - Add additional columns of data from the command line to the output

By default, GAM displays all form responses, you can filter by response time:

• timestamp > <Time> - Display all form responses submitted after <Time>
• timestamp >= <Time> - Display all form responses submitted at or after <Time>

For example, to get the form responses submitted since the beginning of the year:

• filter timestamp >= 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z

Use the filtertime.* <Time> option to allow times, usually relative, to be substituted into the filter <String> option. The characters following filtertime can be any combination of lowercase letters and numbers.

For example, to get the responses subnitted in the last four hours:

• filtertime4h -4h filter "timestamp >= #filtertime4h#

By default, when writing CSV files, Gam uses a quote character of double quote ". The quote character is used to enclose columns that contain the quote character itself, the column delimiter (comma by default) and new-line characters. Any quote characters within the column are doubled. When using the formatjson option, double quotes are used extensively in the data resulting in hard to read/process output. The quotechar <Character> option allows you to choose an alternate quote character, single quote for instance, that makes for readable/processable output. quotechar defaults to gam.cfg/csv_output_quote_char. When uploading CSV files to Google, double quote " should be used.

Combine form information from several GAM commands.

# Get form Id and createdTime
gam redirect csv ./forms.csv  user [email protected] print filelist showmimetype gform fields id,name,createdtime
# Get number of responses, add createdTime
gam redirect csv ./formsresponses.csv multiprocess csv forms.csv gam user "~Owner" print formresponses "~id" countsonly addcsvdata createdTime "~createdTime"
# Get full form info, add createdTime and responses (count)
gam redirect csv ./formsinfo.csv multiprocess csv formsresponses.csv gam user "~User" print forms "~formId" addcsvdata createdTime "~createdTime" addcsvdata responses "~responses"