Novu•15mo ago

Adding a 'link' option to web push via FCM

I'm using Firebase (FCM) provider to send push notifications to web browsers via Novu. I'm trying to set the link option so that clicking the notification takes the user back to the website. I can get push notifications, title, body and images are working: but I can't seem to set the link property as per the interface here: https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/admin/node/firebase-admin.messaging.webpushconfig Looking at the docs / code, I expect that I should be able to send a payload like

curl --location --request POST 'https://url.to.our.selfhosted.novu' \
     --header 'Authorization: ApiKey KEY' \
     --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     --data-raw '{
         "name": "workflow-name",
         "to": {
            ...
         },
         "overrides": {
           "fcm": {
             "webPush": {
               "fcmOptions": {
                 "link": "https://www.novu.co"
               }
             }
           }
         }
       }'

curl --location --request POST 'https://url.to.our.selfhosted.novu' \
     --header 'Authorization: ApiKey KEY' \
     --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     --data-raw '{
         "name": "workflow-name",
         "to": {
            ...
         },
         "overrides": {
           "fcm": {
             "webPush": {
               "fcmOptions": {
                 "link": "https://www.novu.co"
               }
             }
           }
         }
       }'

I can see that other webPush settings I'm setting such as imageUrl work - but I can't seem to get the link value to come through. I've tried fcmOptions and fcm_options but neither seems to work. Does anyone have any experience getting this value across to the service worker?

Firebase

WebpushConfig interface | Firebase Admin SDK

4 Replies

Pawan Jain•15mo ago

Hi @dmgarland If above code is not working, try with data fields

overrides: {
  fcm: {
    imageUrl: "YOUR_IMAGE_URL",
    data: {
      click_action: "YOUR_LINK"
    }
  },
},

overrides: {
  fcm: {
    imageUrl: "YOUR_IMAGE_URL",
    data: {
      click_action: "YOUR_LINK"
    }
  },
},

dmgarlandOP•15mo ago

Cracked it, posting for posterity: You cannot use absolute URLs as the link parameter, but only relative URLs. This is very confusing as the Firebase docs stipulate using HTTPS and imply (so it seems to me) that therefore the whole URL is required ! The following worked for me

curl --location --request POST 'https://url.to.our.selfhosted.novu' \
     --header 'Authorization: ApiKey KEY' \
     --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     --data-raw '{
         "name": "workflow-name",
         "to": {
            ...
         },
         "overrides": {
           "fcm": {
             "webPush": {
               "fcm_options": {
                 "link": "/foo"
               }
             }
           }
         }
       }'

curl --location --request POST 'https://url.to.our.selfhosted.novu' \
     --header 'Authorization: ApiKey KEY' \
     --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     --data-raw '{
         "name": "workflow-name",
         "to": {
            ...
         },
         "overrides": {
           "fcm": {
             "webPush": {
               "fcm_options": {
                 "link": "/foo"
               }
             }
           }
         }
       }'

Linear•15mo ago

Issue DOCS-3 created.

DOCS-3 - mention in fcm docs about relative link in webpush

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Pawan Jain•15mo ago

Thanks for sharing @dmgarland We will update the info in docs

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Adding a 'link' option to web push via FCM