The idea is:
Per this thread, the community would like to request the N8N Google Drive Trigger to support the “trashing” of a file (e.g. when a file is “deleted” in GDrive, it is moved to the “Trash” folder. See Google Drive API “delete” docs
My use case:
AI RAG use case: I use Google Drive as my data source for my OpenAI RAG storage. When a GDrive file is created or edited, it update my RAG vector store. Currently, n8n does not offer a mechanism to respond when a GDrive file is “trashed”. This creates mis-match between the GDrive data and my RAG vector store.
I think it would be beneficial to add this because:
See community support in this thread
Any resources to support this?
Are you willing to work on this?
I have not contributed to N8N but am open to learning if someone would be willing to guide me. (I’m a C#/Java dev, not nodejs)