Google Drive Activity Service

The Google Drive Activity service allows you to use the Google Drive Activity API in Apps Script. This API allows users programmatic access to retrieve information about their Google Drive activity.

Reference

For detailed information on this service, see the reference documentation for the Google Drive Activity API. Like all advanced services in Apps Script, the Google Drive Activity service uses the same objects, methods, and parameters as the public API. For more information, see How method signatures are determined .

To report issues and find other support, see the Google Drive Activity support guide .

Sample code

The sample code below uses version 2 of the API.

Get activity in Google Drive

This sample gets recent activity in a user's Google Drive and logs information about the time, actor, action, and target of each activity.

drive/activity-v2/quickstart.gs
 /** 
 * Lists 10 activity for a Drive user. 
 * @see https://developers.google.com/drive/activity/v2/reference/rest/v2/activity/query 
 */ 
 function 
  
 listDriveActivity 
 () 
  
 { 
  
 const 
  
 request 
  
 = 
  
 { 
  
 pageSize 
 : 
  
 10 
  
 // Use other parameter here if needed. 
  
 }; 
  
 try 
  
 { 
  
 // Activity.query method is used Query past activity in Google Drive. 
  
 const 
  
 response 
  
 = 
  
 DriveActivity 
 . 
 Activity 
 . 
 query 
 ( 
 request 
 ); 
  
 const 
  
 activities 
  
 = 
  
 response 
 . 
 activities 
 ; 
  
 if 
  
 ( 
 ! 
 activities 
  
 || 
  
 activities 
 . 
 length 
  
 === 
  
 0 
 ) 
  
 { 
  
 console 
 . 
 log 
 ( 
 'No activity.' 
 ); 
  
 return 
 ; 
  
 } 
  
 console 
 . 
 log 
 ( 
 'Recent activity:' 
 ); 
  
 for 
  
 ( 
 const 
  
 activity 
  
 of 
  
 activities 
 ) 
  
 { 
  
 // get time information of activity. 
  
 const 
  
 time 
  
 = 
  
 getTimeInfo 
 ( 
 activity 
 ); 
  
 // get the action details/information 
  
 const 
  
 action 
  
 = 
  
 getActionInfo 
 ( 
 activity 
 . 
 primaryActionDetail 
 ); 
  
 // get the actor's details of activity 
  
 const 
  
 actors 
  
 = 
  
 activity 
 . 
 actors 
 . 
 map 
 ( 
 getActorInfo 
 ); 
  
 // get target information of activity. 
  
 const 
  
 targets 
  
 = 
  
 activity 
 . 
 targets 
 . 
 map 
 ( 
 getTargetInfo 
 ); 
  
 // print the time,actor,action and targets of drive activity. 
  
 console 
 . 
 log 
 ( 
 '%s: %s, %s, %s' 
 , 
  
 time 
 , 
  
 actors 
 , 
  
 action 
 , 
  
 targets 
 ); 
  
 } 
  
 } 
  
 catch 
  
 ( 
 err 
 ) 
  
 { 
  
 // TODO (developer) - Handle error from drive activity API 
  
 console 
 . 
 log 
 ( 
 'Failed with an error %s' 
 , 
  
 err 
 . 
 message 
 ); 
  
 } 
 } 
 /** 
 * @param {object} object 
 * @return {string}  Returns the name of a set property in an object, or else "unknown". 
 */ 
 function 
  
 getOneOf 
 ( 
 object 
 ) 
  
 { 
  
 for 
  
 ( 
 const 
  
 key 
  
 in 
  
 object 
 ) 
  
 { 
  
 return 
  
 key 
 ; 
  
 } 
  
 return 
  
 'unknown' 
 ; 
 } 
 /** 
 * @param {object} activity Activity object. 
 * @return {string} Returns a time associated with an activity. 
 */ 
 function 
  
 getTimeInfo 
 ( 
 activity 
 ) 
  
 { 
  
 if 
  
 ( 
 'timestamp' 
  
 in 
  
 activity 
 ) 
  
 { 
  
 return 
  
 activity 
 . 
 timestamp 
 ; 
  
 } 
  
 if 
  
 ( 
 'timeRange' 
  
 in 
  
 activity 
 ) 
  
 { 
  
 return 
  
 activity 
 . 
 timeRange 
 . 
 endTime 
 ; 
  
 } 
  
 return 
  
 'unknown' 
 ; 
 } 
 /** 
 * @param {object} actionDetail The primary action details of the activity. 
 * @return {string} Returns the type of action. 
 */ 
 function 
  
 getActionInfo 
 ( 
 actionDetail 
 ) 
  
 { 
  
 return 
  
 getOneOf 
 ( 
 actionDetail 
 ); 
 } 
 /** 
 * @param {object} user The User object. 
 * @return {string}  Returns user information, or the type of user if not a known user. 
 */ 
 function 
  
 getUserInfo 
 ( 
 user 
 ) 
  
 { 
  
 if 
  
 ( 
 'knownUser' 
  
 in 
  
 user 
 ) 
  
 { 
  
 const 
  
 knownUser 
  
 = 
  
 user 
 . 
 knownUser 
 ; 
  
 const 
  
 isMe 
  
 = 
  
 knownUser 
 . 
 isCurrentUser 
  
 || 
  
 false 
 ; 
  
 return 
  
 isMe 
  
 ? 
  
 'people/me' 
  
 : 
  
 knownUser 
 . 
 personName 
 ; 
  
 } 
  
 return 
  
 getOneOf 
 ( 
 user 
 ); 
 } 
 /** 
 * @param {object} actor The Actor object. 
 * @return {string} Returns actor information, or the type of actor if not a user. 
 */ 
 function 
  
 getActorInfo 
 ( 
 actor 
 ) 
  
 { 
  
 if 
  
 ( 
 'user' 
  
 in 
  
 actor 
 ) 
  
 { 
  
 return 
  
 getUserInfo 
 ( 
 actor 
 . 
 user 
 ); 
  
 } 
  
 return 
  
 getOneOf 
 ( 
 actor 
 ); 
 } 
 /** 
 * @param {object} target The Target object. 
 * @return {string} Returns the type of a target and an associated title. 
 */ 
 function 
  
 getTargetInfo 
 ( 
 target 
 ) 
  
 { 
  
 if 
  
 ( 
 'driveItem' 
  
 in 
  
 target 
 ) 
  
 { 
  
 const 
  
 title 
  
 = 
  
 target 
 . 
 driveItem 
 . 
 title 
  
 || 
  
 'unknown' 
 ; 
  
 return 
  
 'driveItem:"' 
  
 + 
  
 title 
  
 + 
  
 '"' 
 ; 
  
 } 
  
 if 
  
 ( 
 'drive' 
  
 in 
  
 target 
 ) 
  
 { 
  
 const 
  
 title 
  
 = 
  
 target 
 . 
 drive 
 . 
 title 
  
 || 
  
 'unknown' 
 ; 
  
 return 
  
 'drive:"' 
  
 + 
  
 title 
  
 + 
  
 '"' 
 ; 
  
 } 
  
 if 
  
 ( 
 'fileComment' 
  
 in 
  
 target 
 ) 
  
 { 
  
 const 
  
 parent 
  
 = 
  
 target 
 . 
 fileComment 
 . 
 parent 
  
 || 
  
 {}; 
  
 const 
  
 title 
  
 = 
  
 parent 
 . 
 title 
  
 || 
  
 'unknown' 
 ; 
  
 return 
  
 'fileComment:"' 
  
 + 
  
 title 
  
 + 
  
 '"' 
 ; 
  
 } 
  
 return 
  
 getOneOf 
 ( 
 target 
 ) 
  
 + 
  
 ':unknown' 
 ; 
 } 
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