How to have multiple scopes with Google Calendar + Google Drive

Question

I am new to the Google APIs and want to know how I would be able to access 2 different APIs within the same files.

I have

SCOPES = 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar'

but I also want

SCOPES = 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata.readonly'

to be accessible from the same file. Does anyone have any idea how to go about doing this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

When you authenticate simply add both scopes. The user will be prompted to grant you access to both.

SCOPES = 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata.readonly https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar'

You may have to put a comma between them I a not sure it depends upon the library

Now I am not a python dev, however most of the Google client libraries are created the same. Assuming you are using that you will need to create both a calendar service and a drive service. You create them both using the same credential you got from above. Code ripped from here.

serviceDrive = discovery.build('drive', 'v3', http=http)
serviceCal = discovery.build('calendar', 'v3', http=http)

When you need to access calendar you use the calendar service when you need to access drive you use the drive service.

Answer 2

Add scopes into a list object.

Example:

SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar',
          'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata.readonly']