Google: Lists the changes for a user or shared drive For more information, see Retrieve changes (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides manage-changes)

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Operation google.drive_changes_list

Provider route: GET /drive/v3/changes. Alter supplies the connection’s credentials and routing.

Call through Alter

Install @alter-ai/sdk @alter-ai/google with npm, or alter-sdk-google with pip. Supply your connected customer’s grant ID and the arguments described below.

import { App } from "@alter-ai/sdk";
import { GoogleIntegration } from "@alter-ai/google";

async function execute(input: Parameters<GoogleIntegration["driveChanges"]["driveChangesList"]>[0]) {
  const app = new App({ apiKey: process.env.ALTER_API_KEY! });
  try {
    const provider = new GoogleIntegration(app, { grantId: process.env.PROVIDER_GRANT_ID! });
    const call = await provider.driveChanges.driveChangesList(input);
    const result = await call.wait();
    return result.bodyJson();
  } finally {
    await app.close();
  }
}

import os
from alter_sdk import App
from alter_sdk_google import GoogleIntegration

async def execute(arguments):
    async with App(api_key=os.environ["ALTER_API_KEY"]) as app:
        provider = GoogleIntegration(app, {"grant_id": os.environ["PROVIDER_GRANT_ID"]})
        call = await provider.drive_changes.drive_changes_list(arguments)
        result = await call.wait()
        return result.body_json()

Input

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
$	object	Root	Additional keys: not allowed
query	Model	Required within parent	Expand Subscribes to changes for a user For more information, see Notifications for resource changes (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides push) — request body — query

Referenced models: Subscribes to changes for a user For more information, see Notifications for resource changes (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides push) — request body — query

Response

Response media type: application/json. The table describes the pinned successful response. Referenced models link to their complete fields.

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
$	Model	Root	Expand Lists the changes for a user or shared drive For more information, see Retrieve changes (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides manage-changes) — response body

Referenced models: Lists the changes for a user or shared drive For more information, see Retrieve changes (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides manage-changes) — response body

Schemas

19 more schemas are linked from the tables above, on the schema pages.

Lists the changes for a user or shared drive For more information, see Retrieve changes (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides manage-changes) — response body

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
$	object	Root	A list of changes for a user.
changes	array	Optional	The list of changes. If nextPageToken is populated, then this list may be incomplete and an additional page of results should be fetched.
changes[]	Model	Each item	Expand Lists the changes for a user or shared drive For more information, see Retrieve changes (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides manage-changes) — response body — changes item
kind	string	Optional	Identifies what kind of resource this is. Value: the fixed string `"drive#changeList"`. Default: drive#changeList
newStartPageToken	string	Optional	The starting page token for future changes. This will be present only if the end of the current changes list has been reached. The page token doesn't expire.
nextPageToken	string	Optional	The page token for the next page of changes. This will be absent if the end of the changes list has been reached. The page token doesn't expire.

Referenced models: Lists the changes for a user or shared drive For more information, see Retrieve changes (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides manage-changes) — response body — changes item

Subscribes to changes for a user For more information, see Notifications for resource changes (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides push) — request body — query

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
$	object	Root	Additional keys: not allowed
fields	string	Optional	Selector specifying which fields to include in a partial response.
prettyPrint	boolean	Optional	Returns response with indentations and line breaks. Default: true
quotaUser	string	Optional	Available to use for quota purposes for server-side applications. Can be any arbitrary string assigned to a user, but should not exceed 40 characters.
driveId	string	Optional	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	Optional	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. Default: false
includeItemsFromAllDrives	boolean	Optional	Whether both My Drive and shared drive items should be included in results. Default: false
includeLabels	string	Optional	A comma-separated list of IDs of labels to include in the `labelInfo` part of the response.
includePermissionsForView	string	Optional	Specifies which additional view's permissions to include in the response. Only 'published' is supported.
includeRemoved	boolean	Optional	Whether to include changes indicating that items have been removed from the list of changes, for example by deletion or loss of access. Default: true
includeTeamDriveItems	boolean	Optional	Deprecated: Use `includeItemsFromAllDrives` instead. Default: false
pageSize	integer	Optional	The maximum number of changes to return. The service may return fewer than this value. If unspecified, at most 100 changes will be returned. The maximum value is 1000; values above 1000 will be coerced to 1000. Default: 100 Format: int32 Maximum: 1000 Minimum: 1
pageToken	string	Required within parent	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.
restrictToMyDrive	boolean	Optional	Whether to restrict the results to changes inside the My Drive hierarchy. This omits changes to files such as those in the Application Data folder or shared files which have not been added to My Drive. Default: false
spaces	string	Optional	A comma-separated list of spaces to query within the corpora. Supported values are 'drive' and 'appDataFolder'. Default: drive
supportsAllDrives	boolean	Optional	Whether the requesting application supports both My Drives and shared drives. Default: false
supportsTeamDrives	boolean	Optional	Deprecated: Use `supportsAllDrives` instead. Default: false
teamDriveId	string	Optional	Deprecated: Use `driveId` instead.

Lists the changes for a user or shared drive For more information, see Retrieve changes (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides manage-changes) — response body — changes item

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
$	object	Root	A change to a file or shared drive.
changeType	string	Optional	The type of the change. Possible values are `file` and `drive`.
drive	Model	Optional	Expand Creates a shared drive For more information, see Manage shared drives (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides manage-shareddrives) — response body The updated state of the shared drive. Present if the changeType is drive, the user is still a member of the shared drive, and the shared drive has not been deleted.
driveId	string	Optional	The ID of the shared drive associated with this change.
file	Model	Optional	Expand Creates a copy of a file and applies any requested updates with patch semantics For more information, see Create and manage files (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides create-file) — response body The updated state of the file. Present if the type is file and the file has not been removed from this list of changes.
fileId	string	Optional	The ID of the file which has changed.
kind	string	Optional	Identifies what kind of resource this is. Value: the fixed string `"drive#change"`. Default: drive#change
removed	boolean	Optional	Whether the file or shared drive has been removed from this list of changes, for example by deletion or loss of access.
teamDrive	Model	Optional	Expand Deprecated: Use `drives get` instead — response body Deprecated: Use `drive` instead.
teamDriveId	string	Optional	Deprecated: Use `driveId` instead.
time	string	Optional	The time of this change (RFC 3339 date-time). Format: date-time
type	string	Optional	Deprecated: Use `changeType` instead.

Referenced models: Creates a shared drive For more information, see Manage shared drives (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides manage-shareddrives) — response body, Creates a copy of a file and applies any requested updates with patch semantics For more information, see Create and manage files (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides create-file) — response body, Deprecated: Use `drives get` instead — response body

Creates a shared drive For more information, see Manage shared drives (https: developers google com workspace drive api guides manage-shareddrives) — response body — capabilities

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
$	object	Root	Output only. Capabilities the current user has on this shared drive.
canAddChildren	boolean	Optional	Output only. Whether the current user can add children to folders in this shared drive.
canChangeCopyRequiresWriterPermissionRestriction	boolean	Optional	Output only. Whether the current user can change the `copyRequiresWriterPermission` restriction of this shared drive.
canChangeDomainUsersOnlyRestriction	boolean	Optional	Output only. Whether the current user can change the `domainUsersOnly` restriction of this shared drive.
canChangeDownloadRestriction	boolean	Optional	Output only. Whether the current user can change organizer-applied download restrictions of this shared drive.
canChangeDriveBackground	boolean	Optional	Output only. Whether the current user can change the background of this shared drive.
canChangeDriveMembersOnlyRestriction	boolean	Optional	Output only. Whether the current user can change the `driveMembersOnly` restriction of this shared drive.
canChangeSharingFoldersRequiresOrganizerPermissionRestriction	boolean	Optional	Output only. Whether the current user can change the `sharingFoldersRequiresOrganizerPermission` restriction of this shared drive.
canComment	boolean	Optional	Output only. Whether the current user can comment on files in this shared drive.
canCopy	boolean	Optional	Output only. Whether the current user can copy files in this shared drive.
canDeleteChildren	boolean	Optional	Output only. Whether the current user can delete children from folders in this shared drive.
canDeleteDrive	boolean	Optional	Output only. Whether the current user can delete this shared drive. Attempting to delete the shared drive may still fail if there are untrashed items inside the shared drive.
canDownload	boolean	Optional	Output only. Whether the current user can download files in this shared drive.
canEdit	boolean	Optional	Output only. Whether the current user can edit files in this shared drive
canListChildren	boolean	Optional	Output only. Whether the current user can list the children of folders in this shared drive.
canManageMembers	boolean	Optional	Output only. Whether the current user can add members to this shared drive or remove them or change their role.
canReadRevisions	boolean	Optional	Output only. Whether the current user can read the revisions resource of files in this shared drive.
canRename	boolean	Optional	Output only. Whether the current user can rename files or folders in this shared drive.
canRenameDrive	boolean	Optional	Output only. Whether the current user can rename this shared drive.
canResetDriveRestrictions	boolean	Optional	Output only. Whether the current user can reset the shared drive restrictions to defaults.
canShare	boolean	Optional	Output only. Whether the current user can share files or folders in this shared drive.
canTrashChildren	boolean	Optional	Output only. Whether the current user can trash children from folders in this shared drive.

Deprecated: Use `drives get` instead — response body — restrictions download Restriction

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
$	object	Root	A restriction for copy and download of the file.
restrictedForReaders	boolean	Optional	Whether download and copy is restricted for readers.
restrictedForWriters	boolean	Optional	Whether download and copy is restricted for writers. If true, download is also restricted for readers.

Policy, approvals and errors

SDK function policy ID: google.drive_changes_list. Catalog operation: drive.changes.list. Rules can name either ID; function rules distinguish managed calls and conservatively cover raw calls sharing the route. Existing grant permissions and policy rules apply. wait() returns an immediate result or waits for a required approval; it never approves the request itself. Persist the approval ID to resume after a restart.

Provider errors retain their response; JSON decoding raises ProviderAPIError for provider failures. ManagedOperationError identifies contract/input/retention errors. See error handling and provider-specific behavior. Sensitive input may be refused before approval storage. A decoding error never resubmits a write.

Required provider scopes: ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive", "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.appdata", "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file", "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.meet.readonly", "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"]

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