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.
[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Missing the information I need","missingTheInformationINeed","thumb-down"],["Too complicated / too many steps","tooComplicatedTooManySteps","thumb-down"],["Out of date","outOfDate","thumb-down"],["Samples / code issue","samplesCodeIssue","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["Last updated 2025-04-03 UTC."],[],[],null,["# Method: changes.watch\n\n- [HTTP request](#body.HTTP_TEMPLATE)\n- [Query parameters](#body.QUERY_PARAMETERS)\n- [Request body](#body.request_body)\n- [Response body](#body.response_body)\n- [Authorization scopes](#body.aspect)\n\nSubscribe to changes for a user.\n\n### HTTP request\n\n`POST https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v2/changes/watch`\n\nThe URL uses [gRPC Transcoding](https://google.aip.dev/127) syntax.\n\n### Query parameters\n\n| Parameters ||\n|------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| `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. |\n| `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. |\n| `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. |\n| `includeItemsFromAllDrives` | `boolean` Whether both My Drive and shared drive items should be included in results. |\n| `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. |\n| `includeTeamDriveItems` **(deprecated)** | `boolean` Deprecated: Use `includeItemsFromAllDrives` instead. |\n| `maxResults` | `integer` Maximum number of changes to return. |\n| `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. |\n| `spaces` | `string` A comma-separated list of spaces to query. Supported values are `drive`, `appDataFolder` and `photos`. |\n| `startChangeId` **(deprecated)** | `string (`[int64](https://developers.google.com/discovery/v1/type-format)` format)` Deprecated: Use `pageToken` instead. |\n| `supportsAllDrives` | `boolean` Whether the requesting application supports both My Drives and shared drives. |\n| `supportsTeamDrives` **(deprecated)** | `boolean` Deprecated: Use `supportsAllDrives` instead. |\n| `teamDriveId` **(deprecated)** | `string` Deprecated: Use `driveId` instead. |\n| `includePermissionsForView` | `string` Specifies which additional view's permissions to include in the response. Only `published` is supported. |\n| `includeLabels` | `string` A comma-separated list of IDs of labels to include in the `labelInfo` part of the response. |\n\n### Request body\n\nThe request body contains an instance of [Channel](/workspace/drive/api/reference/rest/v2/channels#Channel).\n\n### Response body\n\nIf successful, the response body contains an instance of [Channel](/workspace/drive/api/reference/rest/v2/channels#Channel).\n\n### Authorization scopes\n\nRequires one of the following OAuth scopes:\n\n- `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/docs`\n- `\n https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive`\n- `\n https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.appdata`\n- `\n https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.apps.readonly`\n- `\n https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file`\n- `\n https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.meet.readonly`\n- `\n https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata`\n- `\n https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata.readonly`\n- `\n https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.photos.readonly`\n- `\n https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly`\n\nSome scopes are restricted and require a security assessment for your app to use them. For more information, see the [Authorization guide](/workspace/guides/configure-oauth-consent)."]]
