How to get Google docs last edit date

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Saurabh Sharma · Dec 4, 2014 · Viewed 26.5k times · Source

I am working on an app in which I need to show the date when google doc was last edited.

I am able to get last modified date through Drive api

But it is different from last edited date for cases when file's metadata (e.g. permission) has changed and content hasn't.

Is there any way to get date when google doc was last edited?

Answer

In Google Apps Script there is a DriveApp service that you can use. Something like this will work:

function lastUpdatedOn() {
  var FILE_ID = 'FILEID';

  return DriveApp.getFileById(FILE_ID).getLastUpdated();
}

Hope that helps.