Will the openid scope “https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.me” be affected by the Google+ shutdown?

Question

I would like to know if the following scope URI would be affected by the Google+ shutdown or not.

• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.me

This scope is named "openid" in the "OAuth consent screen" tab of Google API Console and has "plus.me" in the URL. The openid scope is default setting.

But the following URL says "only projects directly requesting the 'plus.me' scope are affected". https://developers.google.com/+/api-shutdown

It confuses me... Is the above scope URI affected by the Google+ shutdown?

Also I would like to confirm each of the following scopes and endpoints will whether be affected or not just in case because I'm using them on my project.

• scopes

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email

• endpoints:

  • https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth
  • https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v3/token

Will the above scopes and endpoints be affected?

Thanks

Answer 1

I would like to know if the following scope URI would be affected by the Google+ shutdown or not.

• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.me

Note: This is not a uri it is a scope. The scope is being shutdown. You will not be able to use this scope when authenticating users to Google.

What are scopes

Different pieces of user information are often stored across a number of online resources. Users may upload and store photos with a service like Flickr, keep digital files on Dropbox, and store contacts and events in Google Calendar or on Facebook.

Often, new applications will want to make use of the information that has already been created in an online resource. To do so, the application must ask for authorization to access this information on a user's behalf. Scopes define the specific actions applications can be allowed to do on a user's behalf.

Shutdown what?

The documentation for the API-shutdown is not very good and can be a little confusing.

Beginning March 7, all OAuth token requests with scopes starting with "plus." (i.e. "plus.me", "plus.login", "plus.profile.emails.read", etc) will fail upon request, and may start to intermittently fail as early as February 15, 2019.

This being any scope starting with the word plus. If we check Google scopes This gives us the following.

So yes https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.me is being shut down the others you have listed are not.