Rclone verification code expiry | Google drive

[KingsPP]

Configured rclone on the Ubuntu system. Then configured the google drive remote.

On config_verification_code. section, I got the Outh2 URL to authentication. After going to this URL it asks me to allow rclone access to my Google account. I allowed the same.

Then it generated the code. Which I then used and successfully completed the Verification process.

So what is the expiry for this code? While configuring the remote, I kept client_id, client_secret blank. So what will be the time limit of the Verification code?

[Animosity022]

I'm not quite sure what your question is.

Once you authorize your account, you get a refresh token which you can see in the rclone.conf

Rclone refreshes that when used.

Google's process is defined here:

Using OAuth 2.0 to Access Google APIs | Google Identity | Google Developers

[KingsPP]

I will be continuously pushing data from Google-drive to another storage service using rclone.

My question is the Verification code that I used while the initial Authorization process, will that change? expires after a week or months? As Google keeps updating its keys. So in case, the verification code expires then my backup fill stops.

[Animosity022]

The verification code is used to authenticate the oAuth process and get you a token.

Once you have a token, rclone refreshes the token automatically.

[KingsPP]

Okay got it.

So this Automatically refreshing tokens won't disturb the backup which happening from my google-drive account to another storage service.