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Firebase Cloud Messaging API Key

Description#

General#

  • Documentation: https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging
  • Summary: Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) is a cross-platform messaging solution that lets users reliably send messages at no cost. The API key allows to send notification messages or data messages to all users of a specific app.
  • IPs allowlist: This feature is not available.
  • Scopes: The Admin FCM API handles authenticating with the backend and facilitates sending messages and managing topic subscriptions. With the Firebase Admin SDK, one can:
    • Send messages to individual devices
    • Send messages to topics and condition statements that match one or more topics.
    • Subscribe and unsubscribe devices to and from topics
    • Construct message payloads tailored to different target platforms

Revoke the secret#

The server key can be directly deleted from the Firebase project console interface and regenerated.

Check for suspicious activity#

At the time of this document, there is no server side logging, history, or auditing available by default. It would require developers to implemented them manually following this documentation

Details for Fcm api key#

  • Family: Api

  • Category: Messaging system

  • Company: Google

  • High recall: True

  • Validity check available: True

  • On-premise instances exist: False

  • Only valid secrets raise an alert: False

  • Minimum number of matches: 1

  • Occurrences found for one million commits: 25.61

  • Prefixed: True

  • PreValidators:

- type: ContentWhitelistPreValidator  patterns:  - :apa91b

Examples#

- text: >    AAAAqwe_S5q:APA91b8uVvvpYoh4fSJBCPBVdbEFvuyBnIVLekoBI8fnWWTqets8kL3m8z9BtkG93yUwbKZKgEZvr9JQ1fsBqUaryvYVM4rFHDnRQRuWM66C4pLwkDtrN7WFUIqJl07EsCmeQKH4bzsP  apikey: AAAAqwe_S5q:APA91b8uVvvpYoh4fSJBCPBVdbEFvuyBnIVLekoBI8fnWWTqets8kL3m8z9BtkG93yUwbKZKgEZvr9JQ1fsBqUaryvYVM4rFHDnRQRuWM66C4pLwkDtrN7WFUIqJl07EsCmeQKH4bzsP