Real-Time Drive-Wide Change Monitoring
Know instantly when anything changes in your Google Drive. Notis monitors all activity and sends Telegram alerts so nothing happens without the team knowing.
Trigger
Google Drive Changes
Triggers when changes are detected in a Google Drive.
Action
Send Message
Send a text message to a telegram chat using the bot api.
Why this helps
Founders managing shared Google Drives can't keep track of what's changing across the entire Drive. Without visibility into all activity, unauthorized changes or important updates slip by unnoticed.
- See all changes across your entire Google Drive in Telegram
- Catch unauthorized or accidental changes quickly
- Keep the team informed about ongoing activity
- Maintain visibility into shared drives and team files
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Drive and Telegram to Notis.
- 2Create an automation: 'Alert me in Telegram whenever changes are detected anywhere in my Google Drive'.
- 3Set the trigger: Google Drive Changes event.
- 4Choose the Telegram channel to receive activity alerts.
- 5Optionally, customize which types of changes trigger alerts (file creation, deletion, sharing, etc.).
- 6Make a change in Google Drive and confirm the alert arrives in Telegram.
Questions about this workflow
Will this detect every single change or will it be noisy?
You can refine the automation to focus on specific change types. For example: 'Only alert me when files are created or deleted, not every metadata change'.
Can I exclude certain files or folders from monitoring?
Yes. Customize the automation to monitor specific folders or file types only. For example: 'Watch only the shared client folder, not temp files'.
Does the alert show who made the change?
Notis includes details about the change, including the user who made it (for team Drives) and a timestamp for audit purposes.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Google Drive to Telegram. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Google Drive triggers
Telegram actions
Comment Added (Docs/Sheets/Slides)
Triggers when a new comment is added to Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
Answer Callback Query
Use this method to send answers to callback queries sent from inline keyboards. the answer will be displayed to the user as a notification at the top of the chat screen or as an alert.
File Created
Triggers when a new file is created in Google Drive.
Delete Message
Delete a message, including service messages, with certain limitations.
File Deleted or Trashed
Triggers when a file is moved to trash or permanently deleted in Drive.
Edit Message
Edit text messages sent by the bot.
File Shared (Permissions Added)
Triggers when new sharing permissions are granted to a file or folder. Uses Drive's `changes.list` endpoint with inline `permissions` in the `fields` mask so each change carries the file's current permission set provider-atomically. We diff that against `seen_permission_keys` to identify newly added grants. Drive page tokens are the primary cursor; if Drive rejects a stored token, the trigger raises `PollingTriggerError` without clearing state rather than silently re-baselining and dropping events. Limitation: truly ephemeral permissions (added and revoked between two polls without any other file modification in between) are not detected. Drive Activity API would catch those but requires an additional OAuth scope and a different payload contract.
Export Chat Invite Link
Generate a new primary invite link for a chat; any previously generated primary link is revoked. the bot must be an administrator in the chat for this to work and must have the appropriate administrator rights.
File Updated
Triggers when a file's metadata or content changes in Google Drive.
Forward Message
Forward messages of any kind. service messages can't be forwarded.
Google Drive Changes
Triggers when changes are detected in a Google Drive.
Get Chat Info
Get up to date information about the chat (current name of the user for one-on-one conversations, current username of a user, group or channel, etc.).
New File Matching Query
Triggers when a new Google Drive file matches a provided query. This is the legacy query-centric trigger: it preserves Drive API query config such as ``corpora`` / ``driveId`` aliases and emits the historical ``file_matching_query`` event type. ``FileCreatedTrigger`` covers the broader "new file" case and emits ``file_created``.
Get Chat Administrators
Get a list of administrators in a chat. on success, returns an array of chatmember objects that contains information about all chat administrators except other bots.
Get Chat History
Get chat history messages. note: this uses the getupdates method with specific parameters to retrieve historical messages.
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