[Question] What other OAuth2 scopes can I access apart from the API scopes

[arnitdo]

In some sample code snippets, the OAuth2 scope has been set to something like ["user, "profile"].

For example, the sample code snippet has scopes ["profile", "email"].

Is there any documentation about non API OAuth scopes like mentioned above?

[parthea]

Great question! In the Getting Started guide, we have a link in section 2 Authorized API access (OAuth 2.0) that points to the OAuth2 page. From there you can click on OAuth 2.0 Scopes.

It would probably be helpful to have some text with a link under the Scopes bullet point in section 2 Authorized API access (OAuth 2.0) that directs the user on where to find the OAuth 2.0 Scopes. Are you by any chance interested in opening a pull request to improve getting started guide doc?

[arnitdo]

Sure! I've opened PR #1090 .

One side question -

It seems that the ["profile", "email"] scope I was referring to is part of the Google OAuth2 API v2 -
i.e "profile" refers to userinfo.profile, and "email" refers to userinfo.email

My question is, how do i access this information from a built API service, and what service name do i use?

[arnitdo]

Ah! After some digging around, I've found this SO Question, and the first answer seems to use serviceName "oauth2" and access user information using further functions.

The "oauth2" service name is not seen on this page. I'm assuming that it has been deprecated, or is no longer available from google-api-python-client.

[arnitdo]

Sorry for the long wall of replies.
After some more digging around, I've found #1088 and #1071 , and that has answered all my questions! :-D

I've also found out that one can get user information from the peoples API!

Thank you very much!