Recipe Watch Drive Changes

Sets up Google Drive change notifications using Google Workspace Events API to monitor file and folder updates in real time. You'll use this when building apps that need to react immediately to Drive changes instead of polling constantly. Creates event subscriptions with Pub/Sub endpoints, lists active subscriptions, and handles renewal before expiry. The honest take: it's essential plumbing for any serious Drive integration, but you'll need to handle the Pub/Sub message processing separately. Saves you from writing boilerplate subscription management code and gives you the three core operations you actually need.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add googleworkspace/cli --skill recipe-watch-drive-changes --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

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

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