Setting up Google Drive™ for VSCode

Overview

The whole process consists of 5 high-level steps:
On Google Cloud Console:

Create a project on Google Cloud Platform
Enable Google Drive API
Setup OAuth consent screen so you can grant permissions required by this extensions
Create and download OAuth credentials-json

In VSCode:
5. Provide credentials-json to this extension within VSCode

Create new project ${your-project-name} on Google Cloud Platform:
Header --> Side menu --> APIs & Services
APIs & Services.SideMenu --> Library.
Search for Google Drive API, select from the search results and click Enable.
APIs & Services.SideMenu --> OAuth consent screen. Go through step-by-step process there. On the scopes step click Add or remove scopes and filter by Google Drive API:

Choose few specific scopes:

WARNING: `.../auth/drive` scope will provide the extension with unlimited access to your files. Use with caution.

If you want to access your personal google-drive (...@gmail.com) and not using an account of some organization (...@custom-company.com), then you need to mark your app as an External and add your email on the Test users step:
APIs & Services.SideMenu --> Enabled APIs & services, at the bottom of the page see the table of the services --> click on Google Drive API. It should navigate you to the page:

https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/api/drive.googleapis.com/metrics?project=`${your-project-name}`
See Credentials tab a bit below the header, click + Create Credentials to the right of the page, select OAuth Client ID
Select Desktop app and complete the rest few fields
Once you see OAuth client created popup, click on Download JSON
Return to VSCode, open command palette, run google.drive.configureCredentials command and select path to the downloaded JSON
Reload VSCode (run Reload window command) and click on Drive plugin icon on the side bar. You should be automatically navigated to your web-browser where you should see the OAuth consent popup:
```
WARNING: You may see a warning-popup prior to the actual consent popup saying that you have to trust a developer of that extension. Please inspect the source code to make sure you privacy is not corrupted.
```
This is an example of a popup that you see in case you setup an app constraint to some organization (i. e. accessed from corporate emails ...@custom-company.com)