What is FCM ?
FCM – Firebase Cloud Messaging is a cross-platform ( Android, iOS and Chrome ) messaging solution that lets you reliably deliver messages at no cost. FCM is best suited if you want to send push notification to your app which you built to run on Android and iOS. The advantage you get is you don’t have to separately deal with GCM (Google Cloud Messaging deprecated now) and Apple’s APNS. You hand over your notification message to FCM and FCM takes care of communicating with apple’s APNS and Android messaging servers to reliably deliver those messages.
Using FCM we can send message to single device or multiple devices. There are two different types of messages, notification and data. Notification messages include JSON keys that are understood and interpreted by phone’s operating system. If you want to include customized app specific JSON keys use data message. You can combine both notification and data JSON objects in single message. You can also send messages with different priority.
Note : – You need to set priority to high if you want phone to wake up and show notification on screen
Sending message with Python
We can use PyFCM to send messages via FCM. PyFCM is good for synchronous ( blocking ) python. We will discuss non-blocking option in next paragraph.
Install PyFCM using following command
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pip install pyfcm |
The following code will send a push notification to
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from pyfcm import FCMNotification push_service = FCMNotification(api_key="<api-key>") # OR initialize with proxies proxy_dict = { "http" : "http://127.0.0.1", "https" : "http://127.0.0.1", } push_service = FCMNotification(api_key="<api-key>", proxy_dict=proxy_dict) # Your api-key can be gotten from: https://console.firebase.google.com/project/<project-name>/settings/cloudmessaging registration_id = "<device registration_id>" message_title = "Uber update" message_body = "Hi john, your customized news for today is ready" result = push_service.notify_single_device(registration_id=registration_id, message_title=message_title, message_body=message_body) print result # Send to multiple devices by passing a list of ids. registration_ids = ["<device registration_id 1>", "<device registration_id 2>", ...] message_title = "Uber update" message_body = "Hope you're having fun this weekend, don't forget to check today's news" result = push_service.notify_multiple_devices(registration_ids=registration_ids, message_title=message_title, message_body=message_body) print result |
So, the PyFCM API is the pretty straight forward to use.
Sending FCM push notification using Twisted
PyFCM discussed in above paragraph is good enough if you want to send messages in blocking fashion. If you have to send high number of concurrent messages then using Twisted is a good option.
Network operations performed using twisted library don’t block. Thus it’s a good choice when network concurrency is required by program. We can use txFCM library to send FCM messages using twisted
Install txFCM using following command
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pip install txfcm |
Following code send FCM message using txFCM
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from txfcm import TXFCMNotification from twisted.internet import reactor push_service = TXFCMNotification(api_key="<api-key>") # Your api-key can be gotten from: https://console.firebase.google.com/project/<project-name>/settings/cloudmessaging # Send to multiple devices by passing a list of ids. registration_ids = ["<device registration_id 1>", "<device registration_id 2>", ...] message_title = "Uber update" message_body = "Hope you're having fun this weekend, don't forget to check today's news" df = push_service.notify_multiple_devices(registration_ids=registration_ids, message_title=message_title, message_body=message_body) def got_result(result): print result df.addBoth(got_result) reactor.run() |
txFCM is built on top of PyFCM so all the API call that are available in PyFCM are also available in txFCM.
Are these libraries compatible with Google app engine
Hi Krasen,
What I see from here https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/sockets/ Twisted is not supported on app google engine so txFCM may not work. PyFCM should work, but there is some throttling applied to number of socket connections as listed in that link.
Hi good tutorial.
I want to send an image with the notification . How ????
Thanks help me please
Hi~
I can’t import pyfcm on python3.
Hi jseeee,
I tested PyFCM with python3. It worked well. Can you please provide more details ?
So I’m trying to use the PyFCM but I can’t get the registration_id. I don’t even know how I would get it.
Hi Alex,
Using following code-snippets, you can retrieve device token-id
For android
String refreshedToken = FirebaseInstanceId.getInstance().getToken().
For Object-c
NSString *refreshedToken = [[FIRInstanceID instanceID] token];
For swift
let token = FIRInstanceID.instanceID().token()!
Following are detailed docs to setup FCM at client
Android – https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/android/client
iOS – https://firebase.google.com/docs/notifications/ios/console-device
With help of fcm console and this token-id, you can send test-notifications to your device. If you want to send notifications from your server using pyFCM, you need to deliver this token-id to server. Ideally at time of authentication with your server, you can do it.
Hi how can I add the code following registration_id to pyfcm ?
I have some android apps, my push receiver build with ionic and the trigger build with pyfcm, what should I do with registration_id ? thanks.
Hi Budhi, in article it is already mentioned how to use
registeration_idakaRegistration Token( in fcm lingo ) –result = push_service.notify_single_device(registration_id=registration_id, message_title=message_title, message_body=message_body)print result
I have webapp in web2py, it sends email to user at some point at same time i want to sendandroid notification fro that user. How can i do it???
Hi Giridhar,
You can use original PyFCM library for it. If you want to do it async way, you can use twisted service and txFCM.
Hi,
I understand the registration_id for android/iOS devices, how do I get the id for google chrome extension/websites.
Hello,
I am unable to install this one on my system.can you please help me out.It’s showing the Error.
hi
i get this error HTTPSConnectionPool(host=’fcm.googleapis.com’, port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /fcm/send (Caused by ProxyError(‘Cannot connect to proxy.’, NewConnectionError(‘: Failed to establish a new connection: [WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it’,)))
I has a test server run linux, can I use c or c++ code to call some API to send message use FCM? Does there has a C or C++ API about FCM?
Thanks!