Watchdog Library for Directory Event Monitoring

This function uses the watchdog library to monitor filesystem events in a specified directory and prints out the event type and the file path where the event occurred to the console.

Technology Stack : watchdog

Code Type : The type of code

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
import os
import time
from watchdog.observers import Observer
from watchdog.events import FileSystemEventHandler

def monitor_directory(path):
    event_handler = DirectoryChangeHandler()
    observer = Observer()
    observer.schedule(event_handler, path, recursive=True)
    observer.start()
    try:
        while True:
            time.sleep(1)
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        observer.stop()
    observer.join()

class DirectoryChangeHandler(FileSystemEventHandler):
    def on_any_event(self, event):
        print(f"Event type: {event.event_type} for {event.src_path}")