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.
[[["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complicated / too many steps","tooComplicatedTooManySteps","thumb-down"],["Out of date","outOfDate","thumb-down"],["Samples / code issue","samplesCodeIssue","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["Last updated 2025-04-18 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\nSubscribes to changes for a user. For more information, see [Notifications for resource changes](https://developers.google.com/workspace/drive/api/guides/push).\n\n### HTTP request\n\n`POST https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/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| `includeItemsFromAllDrives` | `boolean` Whether both My Drive and shared drive items should be included in results. |\n| `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. |\n| `includeTeamDriveItems` **(deprecated)** | `boolean` Deprecated: Use `includeItemsFromAllDrives` instead. |\n| `pageSize` | `integer` The maximum number of changes to return per page. |\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| `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. |\n| `spaces` | `string` A comma-separated list of spaces to query within the corpora. Supported values are 'drive' and 'appDataFolder'. |\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/v3/channels#Channel).\n\n### Response body\n\nIf successful, the response body contains an instance of [Channel](/workspace/drive/api/reference/rest/v3/channels#Channel).\n\n### Authorization scopes\n\nRequires one of the following OAuth scopes:\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.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)."]]
