Send Firebase push notifications using Postman.

Before starting my article, It would be better to mention that I am not going to discuss about how to implement and set up the Firebase push notifications here. I am going to discuss only push notification testing using Postman.

First, follow the below steps to set up Postman to send Firebase notifications.

1. Enter https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send URL and select POST method.
2. Add Authorization and Content-Type headers.

• Authorization — key = “server key”
• Content-Type — application/json

(to find server key Go to your firebase console and select your Firebase Project, Click on Settings icon >Project Settings > Cloud Messaging > Server Key )

3. Add the following as your Body

{
"to":"fcm token",
 "notification" : {
  "sound" : "default",
  "body" :  "test body",
  "title" : "test title",
  "content_available" : true,
  "priority" : "high"
 },
 "data" : {
  "sound" : "default",
  "body" :  "test body",
  "title" : "test title",
  "content_available" : true,
  "priority" : "high"
 }
}

4. Press Send button

After following these steps, you can send push notifications and find out whether the Firebase push notifications are working for you or not 😊

Here is the cURL code snippet for the above process.

curl --location --request POST 'https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send' \
--header 'Authorization: key=SERVER_KEY' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
"to":"FCM_TOKEN",
 "notification" : {
  "sound" : "default",
  "body" :  "test body",
  "title" : "test title",
  "content_available" : true,
  "priority" : "high"
 },
 "data" : {
  "sound" : "default",
  "body" :  "test body",
  "title" : "test title",
  "content_available" : true,
  "priority" : "high"
 }
}'

Thanks for reading…