Method: changes.list

Lists the changes for a user or shared drive. For more information, see Retrieve changes.

HTTP request

GET https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/changes

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.
includeItemsFromAllDrives

boolean

Whether both My Drive and shared drive items should be included in results.
includeRemoved

boolean

Whether to include changes indicating that items have been removed from the list of changes, for example by deletion or loss of access.
includeTeamDriveItems
(deprecated)

boolean

Deprecated: Use includeItemsFromAllDrives instead.
pageSize

integer

The maximum number of changes to return per page.
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.
restrictToMyDrive

boolean

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.
spaces

string

A comma-separated list of spaces to query within the corpora. Supported values are 'drive' and 'appDataFolder'.
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 must be empty.

Response body

A list of changes for a user.

If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "changes": [
    {
      object (Change)
    }
  ],
  "kind": string,
  "nextPageToken": string,
  "newStartPageToken": string
}
Fields
changes[]

object (Change)

The list of changes. If nextPageToken is populated, then this list may be incomplete and an additional page of results should be fetched.
kind

string

Identifies what kind of resource this is. Value: the fixed string "drive#changeList".
nextPageToken

string

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.
newStartPageToken

string

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.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth 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

Some scopes are restricted and require a security assessment for your app to use them. For more information, see the Authorization guide.