Google Contacts read only (OAuth 2.0)

Question

We\'re using OAuth 2.0 to access Gmail Contacts. Do you know if it is possible to request access (scope) in such a way that the authorization pop-up indicates that we need r

Answer 1

Yes, there is, just use https://www.googleapis.com/auth/contacts.readonly as the scope and it will say "View your contacts".

Hope that helps!

Answer 2

For contacts, the lowest granularity of scope that google has is read/write. Read only access is not available.