Google Sheets · OAuth Scopes

Google Sheets OAuth Scopes

OAuth 2.0 searched

Google Sheets publishes 5 OAuth 2.0 scopes. Scopes are the fine-grained permissions an application requests at authorization time to act against the Google Sheets 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.

Google WorkspaceProductivitySpreadsheets

Scopes: 5 Flows: Method: searched

OAuth endpoints

Authorization URL
https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/v2/auth

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

Flows

Scopes (5)

Scope	Description	Flows
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly	See and download all your Google Drive files
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets	See, edit, create, and delete all your Google Sheets spreadsheets
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file	See, edit, create, and delete only the specific Google Drive files you use with this app
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets.readonly	See all your Google Sheets spreadsheets
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive	See, edit, create, and delete all of your Google Drive files

📄 Provider scope reference: https://developers.google.com/workspace/sheets/api/scopes

Source

OAuth Scopes

name: Google Sheets OAuth scopes
generated: '2026-11-04'
method: searched
source: https://developers.google.com/workspace/sheets/api/scopes; https://sheets.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v4 (auth.oauth2.scopes)
docs: https://developers.google.com/workspace/sheets/api/scopes
authorizationUrl: https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/v2/auth
tokenUrl: https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token
scopes:
- scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly
  description: See and download all your Google Drive files
- scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets
  description: See, edit, create, and delete all your Google Sheets spreadsheets
- scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file
  description: See, edit, create, and delete only the specific Google Drive files you use with this app
- scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets.readonly
  description: See all your Google Sheets spreadsheets
- scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive
  description: See, edit, create, and delete all of your Google Drive files

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