Advanced Google Workspace Events Service

The Advanced Google Workspace Events service lets you use the Google Workspace Events API in Apps Script. This API lets you subscribe to Google Workspace resources so that you receive relevant events that you're interested in. Events represent changes to resources, such as when resources are created, updated, or deleted.

Prerequisites

  • An Apps Script project using a standard Google Cloud project instead of the default one created automatically by Apps Script.
  • A Pub/Sub topic created in the same Google Cloud project to receive subscription events. To create a Pub/Sub topic, see Create and subscribe to a Pub/Sub topic.
  • To subscribe to Chat events, you must have a Google Chat app configured on the Chat API configuration page in the Google Cloud console. To create a Google Chat app, see Build a Google Chat app with Apps Script.

  • The necessary authorization scopes added to the Apps Script project's appsscript.json file. The necessary scopes depend on the types of the subscriptions' target resources and events. For details, see Choose Google Workspace Events API scopes. For example:

    "oauthScopes": [
  "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.messages.readonly"
]

Reference

For more information about this service, see the Google Workspace Events API reference documentation. Like all advanced services in Apps Script, the Google Workspace Events service uses the same objects, methods, and parameters as the public API.

Sample code

These samples show you how to perform common Google Workspace Events API actions using the advanced service.

Create a subscription

To create a subscription to a Google Workspace resource, add the following function to the Apps Script project's code:

advanced/events.gs
/**
 * Creates a subscription to receive events about a Google Workspace resource.
 * For a list of supported resources and event types, see the
 * [Google Workspace Events API Overview](https://developers.google.com/workspace/events#supported-events).
 * For additional information, see the
 * [subscriptions.create](https://developers.google.com/workspace/events/reference/rest/v1/subscriptions/create)
 * method reference.
 * @param {!string} targetResource The full resource name of the Google Workspace resource to subscribe to.
 * @param {!string|!Array<string>} eventTypes The types of events to receive about the resource.
 * @param {!string} pubsubTopic The resource name of the Pub/Sub topic that receives events from the subscription.
 */
function createSubscription(targetResource, eventTypes, pubsubTopic) {
  try {
    const operation = WorkspaceEvents.Subscriptions.create({
      targetResource: targetResource,
      eventTypes: eventTypes,
      notificationEndpoint: {
        pubsubTopic: pubsubTopic,
      },
    });
    console.log(operation);
  } catch (err) {
    // TODO (developer) - Handle exception
    console.log('Failed to create subscription with error %s', err.message);
  }
}

List subscriptions

To list subscriptions filtered by event types and target resource, add the following function to the Apps Script project's code:

advanced/events.gs
/**
 * Lists subscriptions created by the calling app filtered by one or more event types and optionally by a target resource.
 * For additional information, see the
 * [subscriptions.list](https://developers.google.com/workspace/events/reference/rest/v1/subscriptions/list)
 * method reference.
 * @param {!string} filter The query filter.
 */
function listSubscriptions(filter) {
  try {
    const response = WorkspaceEvents.Subscriptions.list({ filter });
    console.log(response);
  } catch (err) {
    // TODO (developer) - Handle exception
    console.log('Failed to list subscriptions with error %s', err.message);
  }
}

Get subscription

To get information about a subscription, add the following function to the Apps Script project's code:

advanced/events.gs
/**
 * Gets details about a subscription.
 * For additional information, see the
 * [subscriptions.get](https://developers.google.com/workspace/events/reference/rest/v1/subscriptions/get)
 * method reference.
 * @param {!string} name The resource name of the subscription.
 */
function getSubscription(name) {
  try {
    const subscription = WorkspaceEvents.Subscriptions.get(name);
    console.log(subscription);
  } catch (err) {
    // TODO (developer) - Handle exception
    console.log('Failed to get subscription with error %s', err.message);
  }
}

Update subscription

To update or renew a subscription, add the following function to the Apps Script project's code:

advanced/events.gs
/**
 * Updates an existing subscription.
 * This can be used to renew a subscription that is about to expire.
 * For additional information, see the
 * [subscriptions.patch](https://developers.google.com/workspace/events/reference/rest/v1/subscriptions/patch)
 * method reference.
 * @param {!string} name The resource name of the subscription.
 */
function patchSubscription(name) {
  try {
    const operation = WorkspaceEvents.Subscriptions.patch({
      // Setting the TTL to 0 seconds extends the subscription to its maximum expiration time.
      ttl: '0s',
    }, name);
    console.log(operation);
  } catch (err) {
    // TODO (developer) - Handle exception
    console.log('Failed to update subscription with error %s', err.message);
  }
}

Reactivate subscription

To reactivate a subscription, add the following function to the Apps Script project's code:

advanced/events.gs
/**
 * Reactivates a suspended subscription.
 * Before reactivating, you must resolve any errors with the subscription.
 * For additional information, see the
 * [subscriptions.reactivate](https://developers.google.com/workspace/events/reference/rest/v1/subscriptions/reactivate)
 * method reference.
 * @param {!string} name The resource name of the subscription.
 */
function reactivateSubscription(name) {
  try {
    const operation = WorkspaceEvents.Subscriptions.reactivate({}, name);
    console.log(operation);
  } catch (err) {
    // TODO (developer) - Handle exception
    console.log('Failed to reactivate subscription with error %s', err.message);
  }
}

Delete subscription

To delete a subscription, add the following function to the Apps Script project's code:

advanced/events.gs
/**
 * Deletes a subscription.
 * For additional information, see the
 * [subscriptions.delete](https://developers.google.com/workspace/events/reference/rest/v1/subscriptions/delete)
 * method reference.
 * @param {!string} name The resource name of the subscription.
 */
function deleteSubscription(name) {
  try {
    const operation = WorkspaceEvents.Subscriptions.remove(name);
    console.log(operation);
  } catch (err) {
    // TODO (developer) - Handle exception
    console.log('Failed to delete subscription with error %s', err.message);
  }
}

Get operation

Most Google Workspace Events API methods return a long-running operation. To determine the status of the operation, you can use the operations.get() method.

To get information about an operation, add the following function to the Apps Script project's code:

advanced/events.gs
/**
 * Gets details about an operation returned by one of the methods on the subscription
 * resource of the Google Workspace Events API.
 * For additional information, see the
 * [operations.get](https://developers.google.com/workspace/events/reference/rest/v1/operations/get)
 * method reference.
 * @param {!string} name The resource name of the operation.
 */
function getOperation(name) {
  try {
    const operation = WorkspaceEvents.Operations.get(name);
    console.log(operation);
  } catch (err) {
    // TODO (developer) - Handle exception
    console.log('Failed to get operation with error %s', err.message);
  }
}

To get the name of an operation, use the value from the name field returned from one of the Google Workspace Events API methods, such as subscriptions.create() or subscriptions.patch().