recipe-watch-drive-changes

You can monitor Google Drive changes in real time by creating a Drive change subscription for a specific file or folder to receive instant event updates. This allows continuous synchronization and auditing of Drive resources.

A Google Drive change notification subscription is an event listener that monitors edits, deletions, and metadata updates for specified files or folders. It pushes these change events to a Pub/Sub endpoint for downstream automation.

Yes, you need a Pub/Sub notification endpoint to watch Drive file changes. The subscription sends real-time change events to this endpoint, which acts as the receiver for updates and triggers downstream workflows.

Subscribing to Google Drive change notifications requires gws-events as a prerequisite, a configured Pub/Sub notification endpoint, and proper Drive permissions to both subscribe and receive updates.

Yes, you can list and renew active Drive change subscriptions to ensure continuous monitoring. This functionality maintains your event subscriptions without interruption and keeps real-time synchronization active.