Google Drive Access blocked: Authorization Error

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

I tried to configure a new Google Drive remote using the instructions on the rclone website. I created a new client ID and client secret using the instructions in Google drive, and entered them in the rclone config. But when I got to the "Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?" step, the browser page that opened showed the following error:

Access blocked: Authorization Error
The OAuth client was not found.
If you are a developer of this app, see error details.
Error 401: invalid_client

In this thread with the same problem https://forum.rclone.org/t/http-401-error-when-creating-a-new-remote-from-google-drive/36146/12, the poster said that he was originally using Firefox but then it worked on Chrome. I also started on Firefox, but then tried it on Chrome and it still didn't work.

For what it's worth (probably not much!), I used to use rclone with Google Drive regularly, up until 1-2 years ago, on a different computer (also Linux). I was probably using the default rclone client ID, though.

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

$ rclone --version
rclone v1.62.2
- os/version: debian bookworm/sid (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 6.2.6-76060206-generic (x86_64)
- os/type: linux
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.20.2
- go/linking: static
- go/tags: none

I installed rclone a few days ago.

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

Google Drive

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

rclone config

The rclone config contents with secrets removed.

I was not able to complete the rclone config step.

A log from the command with the -vv flag

I was not able to complete the rclone config step.

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Are you entering / creating your own client ID and secret?

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Yes. I followed the instructions at Google drive (thanks for such detailed instructions, BTW!)

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The error means you are putting in something wrong which is tough as they keys and secrets.

Are you using your own GSuite account / EDU / Personal?

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I'm using my personal google account. Everything went fine during the process to obtain the client id. At the end of the steps, it warned me that verification was required, giving a list of the verification steps or options:

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Following your instructions at the end of Google drive, I ignored this. But now I'm noticing that under "Verification status", it says "Need verification", and when I click on the "Prepare for verification" button, I see these required fields under App domain:

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I don't have an Application home page or privacy policy link; I'm just trying to sync my files.

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I setup my personal account quite some time back for testing. I didn't fill anything out and pushed to production:

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Thanks for all your help. I'll see what else I can do.

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