Back in January, Google Drive launched an
activity stream that shows you what actions have been taken on files and folders
in your Drive. For example, if someone makes edits on a file you’ve shared with them, you’ll
see a notification in your activity stream.
Today, we’re introducing the new Google
Apps Activity API designed to give developers programmatic access to this activity stream.
This standard Google API will allow apps and extensions to access the activity history for
individual Drive files as well as descendents of a folder through a RESTful
interface.
The Google Apps Activity API will allow
developers to build new tools to help users keep better track of what’s happening to specific
files and folders they care about. For example, you might use this new API to help teachers
see which students in their class are editing a file or, come tax season, you might want to
create a quick script to audit the sharing of items in your financial information
folder.
