Google API Hooks, is there a way to be Programmatically Alerted When a Google Doc is Updated?

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Published on 2010-03-20T00:49:03Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 0:51 UTC
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Does Google have an API for registering hooks/callbacks for whenever a document is updated? That way, I could run a process on one of my servers every time a doc was updated.

If they don't have that, what the recommended way to accomplish that? Cron? Anything else?

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