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Firebase Messaging v1 401 Project Not Permitted error

I am running a node server with the firebase admin sdk. However, everytime I try to send a push notification from the server, I get a 401 error.

Here's the exact error I'm getting:

  errorInfo: {
code: 'messaging/authentication-error',
message: 'An error occurred when trying to authenticate to the FCM servers. Make sure the credential used to authenticate this SDK has the proper permissions. See https://firebase.google.com/docs/admin/setup for setup instructions. Raw server response: "<HTML>\n' +
  '<HEAD>\n' +
  '<TITLE>PROJECT_NOT_PERMITTED</TITLE>\n' +
  '</HEAD>\n' +
  '<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000">\n' +
  '<H1>PROJECT_NOT_PERMITTED</H1>\n' +
  '<H2>Error 401</H2>\n' +
  '</BODY>\n' +
  '</HTML>\n' +
  '". Status code: 401.'
},
codePrefix: 'messaging'

I'm not exactly sure why I don't have permissions to the project. I have setup my service account, and downloaded the .json file. I even went into the gcloud platform and tried to add any permission that looked correct. Below are all the permissions associated with my service account:

permissions

I am running the server locally, and initialized the app like this:

const admin = require('firebase-admin');
const messaging = require('firebase-admin/messaging');
const serviceAccount = require('<path-to-key>');

const fbApp = admin.initializeApp({
    credential: admin.credential.cert(serviceAccount),
    projectId: '<PROJECT_ID>',
    databaseURL: '<DB_URL>'
});

I am not sure what else to do as I've looked through the v1 documentation multiple times and still don't have any clue as to what permissions I'm lacking. I even made sure to "firebase login" into the correct google account to see if that could've been an issue.

Here's my code to send a message:

const sendPushNotifications2 = async (topic, reminder) => {
    const payload = genPayload2(reminder);
    //await messaging.getMessaging(fbApp).sendToTopic(topic, payload);
    await admin.messaging(fbApp).sendToTopic(topic, payload);
};

I have verified the client_id, client_email, and private_key_id values in the .json file. I haven't yet verified the private_key property because I'm not sure where to find it.

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza
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It turns out that I had this API disabled: "Firebase In-App Messaging API" It also turns out that this question was asked before, but I wasn't able to find it. Here's the answer

If anyone else runs into this issue this was my fix:

  1. go to the google cloud platform website
  2. go to APIs and Services
  3. go to Enabled APIs & Services
  4. click + Enable APIs and Services
  5. search for Firebase In-App Messaging API and make sure it's enabled.

You can also just search for messaging and make sure that all the cloud messaging APIs are enabled.

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report
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