Google Photos Library OAuth Scopes

OAuth 2.0 derived

Google Photos Library publishes 3 OAuth 2.0 scopes via the authorizationCode flow. Scopes are the fine-grained permissions an application requests at authorization time to act against the Google Photos Library API on a user’s behalf.

Tokens are issued from https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token.

This index is generated from the provider’s OpenAPI security definitions (and, where available, its documented scope reference) and refreshes on every APIs.io network build. Browse every provider’s scopes at scopes.apis.io.

AlbumsGoogleImagesMediaPhotosSharingStorage

Scopes: 3 Flows: authorizationCode Method: derived

OAuth endpoints

Authorization URL
https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth

Token URL
https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token

Flows
authorizationCode

Scopes (3)

Scope	Description	Flows
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary	View and manage your Google Photos library	authorizationCode
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.readonly	View your Google Photos library	authorizationCode
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.sharing	Manage and add to shared albums	authorizationCode

📄 Provider scope reference:

Source

OAuth Scopes

generated: '2026-07-11'
method: derived
source: openapi/photos.yml
schemes:
- name: oauth2
  source: openapi/photos.yml
  flows:
  - flow: authorizationCode
    authorizationUrl: https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth
    tokenUrl: https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token
scopes:
- scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary
  description: View and manage your Google Photos library
  flows:
  - authorizationCode
  sources:
  - openapi/photos.yml
- scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.readonly
  description: View your Google Photos library
  flows:
  - authorizationCode
  sources:
  - openapi/photos.yml
- scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.sharing
  description: Manage and add to shared albums
  flows:
  - authorizationCode
  sources:
  - openapi/photos.yml