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Web scrapping is a huge problem and I am happy to seem more usable solution but why do you need these permissions from me:

See, edit, create, and delete ALL of your Google Drive files

See, edit, create, and delete ALL your spreadsheets in Google Drive

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Google Drive and Google Calendar permissions are not that great. IIRC there is no distinction between individual CRUD actions, so if the app wants to create a file they also need perms to edit and delete.

This is the most common thing to cause alarm; Google's permissions are a little awkward.

We are not reading all your files - we are only reading/writing to the google sheets input as a link to our bot.

We're looking now at turning off access for anything outside Google sheets, so this message and permissions system is less alarming.

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