nottify

Delivers websocket notifications triggered by Google Drive activity

Created for this CloudSpoke challenge

Live presentation: http://nottify.herokuapp.com

Setup instructions

• Open config.properties and fill up all necessary keys and secrets, polling interval
• Deploy to heroku: git push (locally: maven clean compile, or run with Eclipse)
• You are done Sir

Features

• Delivering real time notifications of added/deleted documents/folders inside Google Drive
• OAuth2 authorization with drive/docs feed scope
• Multi-user supported, any user can only see his own changes
• Configurable polling interval for Google Drive API
• Handling error cases, token refreshing

Code

A maven managed Java codebase is responsible for GDrive polling, feed parsing, and notification delivering. HTTP Notifications go to RequestB.in, and through Pusher.com to the end users. Client side: javascript/html5/css3/less is rendering the changes.