Read Google Forms responses and subscribe to push notifications for new submissions
domain: developers.google.com/workspace/forms · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Verified steps
Authenticate with OAuth 2.0 credentials scoped for the Forms API
Call forms.responses.list on a form to pull existing responses, using pageToken to page through large response sets
Set up a Google Cloud Pub/Sub topic and grant the Forms API service account permission to publish to it
Call forms.watches.create specifying eventType RESPONSES and your Pub/Sub topic as the target to subscribe to new/updated response notifications
On receiving a Pub/Sub notification, treat it only as a signal -- call forms.responses.list (or get) again to fetch the actual new response data
Renew the watch before it expires, since watches automatically expire seven days after creation
Known gotchas
Watches expire after 7 days and are not renewed automatically -- integrations need a scheduled renewal job or they silently stop receiving notifications
Push notifications only signal that something changed; they do not include response content, so every notification requires a follow-up API call to fetch fresh data
There are two watch event types (SCHEMA for form edits, RESPONSES for new answers) -- subscribing to the wrong one means you won't be notified about submissions
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