Google Drive Events | Cloud Elements Help Center

Cloud Elements supports events via polling or webhooks depending on the API provider. For more information about our Events framework, see Events Overview.

Supported Events and Resources

Cloud Elements supports polling events for Google Drive. After receiving an event, Cloud Elements standardizes the payload and sends an event to the configured callback URL of your authenticated element instance.

You can set up polling for the events resource. You can also copy the events configuration to poll other resources. See Configure Polling Through API for more information.

Note: Unless configured for a specific time zone, polling occurs in UTC.

Configure Polling Through the UI

To configure polling through the UI, follow the same steps to authenticate an element instance, and then turn on events. Select the resources to poll, and then click Create Instance. For more information, see Authenticate an Element Instance with Events (UI) or the element-specific authentication topic.

Configure Polling Through API

Use the /instances endpoint to authenticate with Google Drive and create an element instance with polling enabled.

Note: The endpoint returns an element instance token and id upon successful completion. Retain the token and id for all subsequent requests involving this element instance.

To authenticate an element instance with polling:

Get an authorization grant code by completing the steps in Getting a redirect URL and Authenticating users and receiving the authorization grant code.

Construct a JSON body as shown below (see Parameters):

{
  "element":{
    "key":"googledrive"
  },
  "providerData":{
    "code": "<AUTHORIZATION_GRANT_CODE>"
  },
  "configuration":{
    "oauth.callback.url": "<CALLBACK_URL>",
    "oauth.api.key": "<CONSUMER_KEY>",
    "oauth.api.secret": "<CONSUMER_SECRET>",
    "document.root.folder.name": "<DIRECTORY_NAME>",
    "event.notification.enabled": true,
    "event.vendor.type": "polling",
    "event.notification.callback.url": "http://mycoolapp.com",
    "event.poller.refresh_interval": "<minutes>"
  },
  "tags":[
    "<Add_Your_Tag>"
  ],
  "name":"<INSTANCE_NAME>"
}

Call the following, including the JSON body you constructed in the previous step:
```
POST /instances
```
Note: Make sure that you include the User and Organization keys in the header. For more information, see Authorization Headers, Organization Secret, and User Secret.
Locate the token and id in the response and save them for all future requests using the element instance.

Example cURL with Polling

curl -X POST \
https://api.cloud-elements.com/elements/api-v2/instances \
-H 'authorization: User <USER_SECRET>, Organization <ORGANIZATION_SECRET>' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
-d '{
"element": {
  "key": "googledrive"
},
"providerData":{
  "code": "<AUTHORIZATION_GRANT_CODE>"
},
"configuration": {
    "oauth.callback.url": "http://mycoolapp.com",
    "oauth.api.key": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
    "oauth.api.secret": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
    "document.root.folder.name": "My Drive",
    "event.notification.enabled": true,
    "event.vendor.type": "polling",
    "event.notification.callback.url": "https://api.cloud-elements.com/elements/api-v2/events/googledrive/",
    "event.poller.refresh_interval": "15"
  },
  "tags": [
    "Docs"
  ],
  "name": "API Instance with Polling"
}'

Parameters

API parameters not shown in Cloud Elements are in code formatting.

Parameter	Description	Data Type
'key'	The element key. googledrive	string
Name `name`	The name for the element instance created during authentication.	Body
`oauth.callback.url`	The Callback URL that was registered when creating credentials in your Google Drive project. This is the Callback URL that you noted at the end of the API Provider Setup section.
`oauth.api.key`	The OAuth Client ID from Google Drive. This is the Client ID that you noted at the end of the API Provider Setup section.	string
`oauth.api.secret`	The OAuth Client Secret from Google Drive. This is the Client Secret that you noted at the end of the API Provider Setup section.	string
Document Root Folder `document.root.folder.name`	The directory on Google Drive that contains the documents that you want to connect.	string
Events Enabled `event.notification.enabled`	Optional. Identifies that events are enabled for the element instance. Default: `false`.	boolean
Event Type `event.vendor.type`	Optional. The event type used to monitor events. Polling is the default and only supported event type for Google Drive.	string
Event Notification Callback URL `event.notification.callback.url`	The URL where you want Cloud Elements to send the events.	string
Event poller refresh interval (mins) `event.poller.refresh_interval`	A number in minutes to identify how often the poller should check for changes.	number
Callback Notification Signature Key `event.notification.signature.key`	Optional. A user-defined key for added security to show that events have not been tampered with.	string
tags	Optional. User-defined tags to further identify the instance.	string