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Yeah. It gives read/write access to one file. The ideal for this use case would be read only access for one file. I think read/write access for one file follows the principle of least privilege better than read access for all files. https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v2/about-auth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege



I've found that drive.file doesn't work so well with existing Sheets https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61778469/append-rows-to-...




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