gdrive-watcher is a library for watching file updates to a google drive folder.
Set the environment variable for your google service account:
export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=".json"
In the service account JSON file, look for "client_email". Add this email address to the folder you like to watch, or its parent folder.
Example usage:
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from dotenv import load_dotenv
import os
from gdrive_watcher import GDriveWatcher
from gdrive_watcher.gdrive_reader import GDriveReader
load_dotenv()
folder_id = os.environ["FOLDER_ID"]
watcher = GDriveWatcher(
folder_id=folder_id,
watch_start_time=datetime.now() - timedelta(days=5), # feel free to change this
)
reader = GDriveReader()
for event in watcher.watch():
print("-", event)
if not event.is_folder:
print("content:", reader.read_by_file_id(event.file_id))For debugging, run
python gdrive_watcher/poll.py
Note: there may be a timing issue if your timezone is different from the timezone of your google drive account.