Google spreadsheet api Request had insufficient authentication scopes

Question

I'm making an script to read data from google spreadsheet using the following script on nodejs:

var url = oauth2Client.generateAuthUrl({
    access_type:     'offline',
    approval_prompt: 'force',
    scope: [
      'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.readonly',
      'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive',
      'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets'
    ]
});
global.googleapis = { expiry_date: 0 };
google.options({ auth: oauth2Client });
var sheets    = google.sheets('v4');
sheets.spreadsheets.get({ spreadsheetId: 'id'}, function(err, data) {
    res.send(err, data);
});

But on every get request i'm getting this error:

Request had insufficient authentication scopes.

I checked the Google developers console to enable the Google Drive API and it's enabled, so I dont really know what could it be.

Answer 1

1. Firstly delete the credentials files ~/.credentials/sheets.googleapis.com-nodejs-quickstart.json (depending on your setting)

2. Change the scope variable used for reading cells from Google Spreadsheets from

var SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets.readonly'];

to

var SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets'];

3. After the execution of code, API will authenticate again and then the issue will be resolved.

Answer 2

The scopes look good, maybe you should try to remove the credentials stored previously in /Users/yourUserName/.credentials/sheets.googleapis.com-projectName/*, and then execute the application again to get new credentials.

Answer 3

First, make sure you also enable the Sheets API in your Developers Console.

The insufficient authentication scopes is an error in the OAuth 2.0 token provided in the request specifies scopes that are insufficient for accessing the requested data.

So make sure you use the correct and all necessary scope and check this Authorizing requests with OAuth 2.0 if you properly follow the steps here.

Lastly, try to revoke the access and try to redo it.

For more information, check this related SO question:

• Write to GoogleSheet via API with Java

• Google Spreadsheets API with OAuth2.0 using Javascript

Answer 4

In my case a token.pickle file was created in the same working directory as my program, I also had my credentials.json file in the same directory, all I did was deleted the token.pickle file , then changed the scope, then ran it again, it will again ask for authentication in your browser and that's it , it works.

My code snippet is like below , I was creating a pickle file so I had to delete it before changing scope

    if os.path.exists('token.pickle'):
    with open('token.pickle', 'rb') as token:
        creds = pickle.load(token)
    # If there are no (valid) credentials available, let the user log in.
    if not creds or not creds.valid:
        if creds and creds.expired and creds.refresh_token:
            creds.refresh(Request())
        else:
            flow = InstalledAppFlow.from_client_secrets_file(
                'credentials.json', SCOPES)
            creds = flow.run_local_server()
        # Save the credentials for the next run
        with open('token.pickle', 'wb') as token:
            pickle.dump(creds, token)

Answer 5

Delete the token from tokens folder and try again. If you have tried to run the Google Drive Quickstart before running the Spreadsheet Quickstart, the existing token might not have the spreadsheet access updated.

Answer 6

The same problem occurred when I updated the scope. Along with the instruction, I delete the token.json file under the same directory with the python script, then the Authentication scope issue went away.

Answer 7

I was looking for the credential location for long time. Lot of forum mentioned that it'd be under c:\users\.credentials\google-api****.json But I couldn't find them anywhere. Then I figured out that my program created a token.pickle file right in the program .py directory which is essentially the credential file.

Answer 8

Also please check the installed version of googleapis in your workspace, because the latest version (51) does not support for Node 8. So you need downgrade its version. https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-nodejs-client/releases

Answer 9

as @herrogokunaruto mentioned, ensure token.pickle file is not present in the workspacefolder

Answer 10

In my case (Java + IntellijIdea) I deleted a file: ~/IdeaProjects/projectName/tokens/StoredCredential and restarted code.

This folder was created with GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow.Builder, so may be different, but the file should be the same.

After restarting I have switched to the Quickstart page again for access managing - give all access for the user and follow.

After that, all work well for me