Smart Alerts for Google Drive Files Matching Your Needs
Define what matters to you once, and Notis alerts the team every time a matching file arrives in Google Drive. Never miss relevant documents again.
Trigger
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``.
Action
Send Message
Send a text message to a telegram chat using the bot api.
Why this helps
Founders spend time manually searching Google Drive for files matching their criteria, and important relevant documents are missed because they're not actively looking. An automated alert ensures nothing matching the criteria goes unnoticed.
- Automatically alert the team when files matching your criteria are created
- Never miss relevant documents in Google Drive
- Stop manually searching for files that matter to you
- Reduce the cognitive load of monitoring for new content
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Drive and Telegram to Notis.
- 2Create an automation: 'Alert my team in Telegram whenever a new file matches [your search criteria]'.
- 3Define your search criteria in the automation prompt (file name patterns, content, type, folder, etc.).
- 4Set the trigger: Google Drive New File Matching Query event.
- 5Select the Telegram channel to receive matching-file alerts.
- 6Create a test file matching your criteria and confirm the alert arrives in Telegram.
Questions about this workflow
Can I create multiple automations with different search criteria?
Absolutely. Create one automation per search pattern and route each to a different Telegram channel if you want to organize by category.
How specific can my search criteria be?
Very specific. Search by file name, content keywords, file type, folder, owner, creation date, and more. Combine criteria for precision.
What if I want to exclude certain files from the alert?
Refine your query to exclude files. For example: 'Send alerts on new Sheets except those with 'draft' in the name'.
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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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