General
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recipe-watch-drive-changes
by googleworkspace/cli
Subscribe to change notifications on a Google Drive file or folder.
Skill content
Subscribe to Google Drive file and folder changes via Pub/Sub notifications.
- Requires the gws-events skill and gws binary to execute
- Creates event subscriptions on Drive resources with configurable notification endpoints and payload options
- Supports subscription lifecycle management: create, list, and renew subscriptions before expiry
- Delivers change events (file updates) to Google Cloud Pub/Sub topics for downstream processing
Watch for Drive Changes
PREREQUISITE: Load the following skills to execute this recipe: gws-events
Subscribe to change notifications on a Google Drive file or folder.
Steps
- Create subscription: gws events subscriptions create --json '{"targetResource": "//drive.googleapis.com/drives/DRIVE_ID", "eventTypes": ["google.workspace.drive.file.v1.updated"], "notificationEndpoint": {"pubsubTopic": "projects/PROJECT/topics/TOPIC"}, "payloadOptions": {"includeResource": true}}'
- List active subscriptions: gws events subscriptions list
- Renew before expiry: gws events +renew --subscription SUBSCRIPTION_ID