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I’d like to trigger some flows whenever a new file is added to a Google Drive folder. My current plan is to run a small python server that receives webhook calls from the Drive API, then uses the Prefect API to trigger the flows. Questions:
1. Is the right Prefect API to use the GraphQL API mutations API `createFlowRun`?
2. Is there anything like this around already? Would love to not reinvent the wheel and deploy a new service.

Hi <@U020NF69BQT> - the correct API call to use is `create_flow_run`  (the camelCased route is deprecated).

Another option besides a standalone webserver would be to use something like AWS Lambda or Google Cloud function to create the call. Those typically incur a much lower overhead. <https://medium.com/the-prefect-blog/event-driven-workflows-with-aws-lambda-2ef9d8cc8f1a|This blog post >might be interesting for your use case.