recipe-watch-drive-changes

SKILL.md

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