Sync Slack Messages Automatically to Google Sheets 📤

Spreadsheets and Databases

Adam Browder

July 10, 2025

Your team shares important updates in Slack every day—project notes, client requests, and internal decisions. Without a way to track them, those messages often get lost in busy threads. This automation helps by letting you sync Slack messages automatically to Google Sheets the moment they’re posted.

It captures each new message in a specific channel and adds the content and sender’s name to a spreadsheet. You’ll have a live record of your team’s conversations, organized by row and ready to use.

This saves time, reduces manual work, and keeps your data structured. No more searching Slack or copying messages by hand—just clean, automatic logging.

🧩 Essentials

💬 Slack Account
Capture messages from your selected Slack channel.

📈 Google Sheets Account
Store Slack messages in real time with organized rows.

🤖 Workload Account
Build, run, and manage your automation—no code needed.

🛠️ Make It Yours

📎 Add filters
Log messages from key users or with matching keywords.

📅 Add timestamps
Attach date and time to each captured message.

🔧 Use AI Formatter
Clean, extract, or tag content before logging.

⚙️ How to Sync Slack Messages Automatically to Google Sheets

Step 1: Set up your workflow

Click Create Workflow in Workload Dashboard

Click “Create Workflow” in the Workload dashboard to begin building your Slack to Google Sheets automation.

Give your automation a name like “Slack to Sheets”

Type a custom name for your new workflow so you can easily identify it later.

Step 2: Add your Slack trigger

Select the trigger app: Slack

Use the app picker to select Slack as the trigger application for this automation.

Choose the event: New Message Posted to Channel

Click Sign in to connect your Slack account. For help, follow the step-by-step guide on how to connect Slack to Workload. Once connected, click Continue.

Connect your Slack account to begin syncing messages with Google Sheets in your Slack to Google Sheets workflow.

Select a Slack channel to monitor for new messages, then click Continue

Choose the Slack channel you want to monitor for new message events.

Click Test Trigger to pull sample data from Slack

Test the Slack trigger to confirm Workload can receive sample data from the selected channel.

Once you get a successful response, click Continue

Review the data returned from Slack, including message text, user, timestamp, and channel ID.

Step 3: Add your Google Sheets action

Select Google Sheets as the action app

Choose the event Create Spreadsheet Row

Choose “Create Spreadsheet Row” to complete your Slack to Google Sheets setup and begin logging messages.

Click Sign in to connect your Google account. For help, follow the step-by-step guide. Once connected, click Continue.

Click “Continue” after connecting your Google Sheets account to Sync Slack Messages Automatically.

Choose the destination Spreadsheet and Worksheet where the Slack messages should be logged

Choose the destination spreadsheet and worksheet to Sync Slack Messages Automatically.

Use the + Add To button to start mapping Slack data to your Google Sheet. The column names match your spreadsheet. Choose fields like message text, sender, channel, or timestamp from the Slack trigger. Click + Add To for more fields, then hit Continue when done.