Folder moving events in google drive - google-drive-api

Question

When I drag a folder to another location,
is there any way I could know this activity, telling me that it is from where to where?

Answer 1

Use Google Drive Activity API to get informations about the changes made within a user's Google Drive.
Using activity.query():
Set the itemName based on the file/folder that you want to check activity using this format "items/FILE_ID" or "items/FOLDER_ID"
Set filter to detail.action_detail_case:MOVE to get move action activities
References:
Making Requests in the Drive Activity API
Filtering
Sample Request Body:
{
"filter": "detail.action_detail_case:MOVE",
"itemName": "items/1BNPRFAJgVMW-DF_sdEsF-_14X0xxxxx"
}
Filter all drive activity that has move ActionDetail
Primary criteria is to return activities for a specific folder with folder id: 1BNPRFAJgVMW-DF_sdEsF-_14X0xxxxx
Response Body:
This will return a DriveActivity object that will contain a Move object under ActionDetail object. You can refer to the removedParents->driveItem to get the information regarding the previous parent folder of the file/folder and addedParents->driveItem to get the new parent folder of the file/folder
{
"activities": [
{
"primaryActionDetail": {
"move": {
"addedParents": [
{
"driveItem": {
"name": "items/1mF5a3gxiLzVIRe2dhY4W3Alfxxxx",
"title": "NewFolder_Name",
"folder": {
"type": "STANDARD_FOLDER"
},
"driveFolder": {
"type": "STANDARD_FOLDER"
}
}
}
],
"removedParents": [
{
"driveItem": {
"name": "items/1lFzVvlBnBi-2o1VQGF5JDFRxxxxx",
"title": "TESTFOLDER",
"folder": {
"type": "STANDARD_FOLDER"
},
"driveFolder": {
"type": "STANDARD_FOLDER"
}
}
}
]
}
},
.....
"targets": [
{
"driveItem": {
"name": "items/11TrX6KcAJppWCj9GSUjSYn79Aqxxxx",
"title": "CSVFOLDER",
"folder": {
"type": "STANDARD_FOLDER"
},
"mimeType": "application/vnd.google-apps.folder",
.......
}
}
],
"timestamp": "2021-08-12T16:10:24.744Z"
}
]
}