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Find new Drive videos in Amara

New video files can be easy to lose track of. Have Notis check Amara for details as soon as a file is created in Drive.

Trigger

File Created

Triggers when a new file is created in Google Drive.

Action

Get Video URL Details

Tool to get details for a specific video url. use when you have a public or embeddable video url and need its amara metadata (id, title, duration, thumbnails, etc.).

Why this helps

A video lands in Drive, then someone has to remember to find its Amara record and confirm its metadata.

  • Reduce the manual search between Drive and Amara.
  • See whether a new video URL has matching Amara metadata.
  • Keep new video intake moving with fewer context switches.

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Google Drive and Amara once in the Notis portal.
  • 2Create an automation in Notis and give it a clear name.
  • 3Tell Notis to use the new file's public or embeddable video URL to retrieve its Amara details, and report when no usable URL is available.
  • 4Choose the Google Drive File Created trigger and select a channel for run reports.
  • 5Test with one real Drive video file that has a public or embeddable URL.

Questions about this workflow

Does this create a video in Amara?

No. It uses Amara's Get Video URL Details action to retrieve information about a video URL. It does not create or upload a video.

What if the Drive file has no usable URL?

Ask Notis to report that the lookup could not run. Amara needs a public or embeddable video URL for this action.

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Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Google Drive to Amara. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Google Drive triggers

Amara actions

Recurring trigger

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

TriggerScheduled

Add Subtitle Note

Tool to add a note to a subtitle set. use after retrieving the notes uri of the subtitle set.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Create Subtitle Language

Tool to create a new subtitle language for a video. use when you need to add a language track (iso 639-1 code) before uploading subtitles.

ActionInstant

Comment Added (Docs/Sheets/Slides)

Triggers when a new comment is added to Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides.

TriggerPolling

Fetch Subtitles Data

Tool to fetch subtitle data for a video in a specific language. use when you need to retrieve subtitle segments after confirming video id and language code.

ActionInstant

File Created

Triggers when a new file is created in Google Drive.

TriggerPolling

Get Subtitle Language Details

Tool to retrieve details for a single subtitle language. use when you have video id and language code and need metadata about that language track.

ActionInstant

File Deleted or Trashed

Triggers when a file is moved to trash or permanently deleted in Drive.

TriggerPolling

Get Team Details

Tool to get details on a specific team by slug. use when you need metadata for a single team.

ActionInstant

File Shared (Permissions Added)

Triggers when new sharing permissions are granted to a file or folder. Uses Drive's `changes.list` endpoint with inline `permissions` in the `fields` mask so each change carries the file's current permission set provider-atomically. We diff that against `seen_permission_keys` to identify newly added grants. Drive page tokens are the primary cursor; if Drive rejects a stored token, the trigger raises `PollingTriggerError` without clearing state rather than silently re-baselining and dropping events. Limitation: truly ephemeral permissions (added and revoked between two polls without any other file modification in between) are not detected. Drive Activity API would catch those but requires an additional OAuth scope and a different payload contract.

TriggerPolling

Get User Data

Tool to get user data by username or id. use when you need to fetch account details for a user.

ActionInstant

File Updated

Triggers when a file's metadata or content changes in Google Drive.

TriggerPolling

Get Video URL Details

Tool to get details for a specific video url. use when you have a public or embeddable video url and need its amara metadata (id, title, duration, thumbnails, etc.).

ActionInstant

Google Drive Changes

Triggers when changes are detected in a Google Drive.

TriggerPolling

List Available Languages

Tool to get a list of all supported languages. use when you need to know available language options from amara.

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Google Drive and Amara, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

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