Method: changes.watch
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Subscribe to changes for a user.
HTTP request
POST https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v2/changes/watch
The URL uses
gRPC Transcoding
syntax.
Query parameters
Parameters
|
driveId
|
string
The shared drive from which changes will be returned. If specified the change IDs will be reflective of the shared drive; use the combined drive ID and change ID as an identifier.
|
includeCorpusRemovals
|
boolean
Whether changes should include the file resource if the file is still accessible by the user at the time of the request, even when a file was removed from the list of changes and there will be no further change entries for this file.
|
includeDeleted
|
boolean
Whether to include changes indicating that items have been removed from the list of changes, for example by deletion or loss of access.
|
includeItemsFromAllDrives
|
boolean
Whether both My Drive and shared drive items should be included in results.
|
includeSubscribed
|
boolean
Whether to include changes outside the My Drive hierarchy in the result. When set to false, changes to files such as those in the Application Data folder or shared files which have not been added to My Drive will be omitted from the result.
|
includeTeamDriveItems
(deprecated)
|
boolean
Deprecated: Use
includeItemsFromAllDrives
instead.
|
maxResults
|
integer
Maximum number of changes to return.
|
pageToken
|
string
The token for continuing a previous list request on the next page. This should be set to the value of
nextPageToken
from the previous response or to the response from the getStartPageToken method.
|
spaces
|
string
A comma-separated list of spaces to query. Supported values are
drive
,
appDataFolder
and
photos
.
|
startChangeId
(deprecated)
|
string (
int64
format)
Deprecated: Use
pageToken
instead.
|
supportsAllDrives
|
boolean
Whether the requesting application supports both My Drives and shared drives.
|
supportsTeamDrives
(deprecated)
|
boolean
Deprecated: Use
supportsAllDrives
instead.
|
teamDriveId
(deprecated)
|
string
Deprecated: Use
driveId
instead.
|
includePermissionsForView
|
string
Specifies which additional view's permissions to include in the response. Only
published
is supported.
|
includeLabels
|
string
A comma-separated list of IDs of labels to include in the
labelInfo
part of the response.
|
Request body
The request body contains an instance of
Channel
.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains an instance of
Channel
.
Authorization scopes
Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/docs
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.appdata
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.apps.readonly
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata.readonly
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.photos.readonly
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly
Some scopes are restricted and require a security assessment for your app to use them. For more information, see the
Authorization guide
.
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Last updated 2023-05-10 UTC.
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