Fewer permission for Google Sheets API

Question

In my Chrome extension's manifest.json, I have this entry:

"oauth2": {
    "client_id": "someLongIdHere.apps.googleusercontent.com",
    "scopes": ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets"]
}

And I'm using this in background.js

    chrome.identity.getAuthToken({ interactive: true }, getToken);

Everything is working, but I need to make the extension to ask for fewer permissions. These permissions might scare away potential users:

In particular, I just want it to ask for these permissions:

See and edit your spreadsheets
Create new spreadsheets

My google-fu is failing, can't find how to restrict Google API to fewer permissions

user_1841839 · Answer

These are the scopes available for the Google sheets api

If you want to See, edit, create, Sheets then you need either of these

your google-fu is not failing you there is just no other option. Unless you are only after files created by your app in which case you should check the drive.file one.

Fewer permission for Google Sheets API

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