Drive Change Notifications

v20260401

recipe-watch-drive-changes

Subscribe to Google Drive file or folder change notifications via the gws CLI recipe, keeping active subscriptions listed and renewed so downstream systems can react to updates automatically.

GoogleDrive Notifications Automation CLI Monitoring Subscriptions

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Overview

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

Info

Category Development

Name recipe-watch-drive-changes

Version v20260401

Size 922B

Source googleworkspace/cli

Updated At 2026-04-08