Google Drive api scope and file access (drive vs drive.files)

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WHITECOLOR picture WHITECOLOR · Mar 14, 2014 · Viewed 22.2k times · Source

I have created two refresh tokens for me: one for 

SCOPE = 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive'

and another 

SCOPE = 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file'

I'm trying to get information about files (using get method) Some files I can get when using SCOPE drive.files, and some only when using wider scope drive

But I can not figure out what is the reason for that? Files are located in different folders but have one shared root folder.

Answer

jpolitz picture jpolitz · May 16, 2014

The difference is that 'drive.file' only gives you permission to files that your app has created or the user has explicitly shared with your app, whereas 'drive' gives your app permission to see the all the files in the user's drive.

See

https://developers.google.com/drive/web/scopes

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