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Service Account Keys

  1. Scroll back up to the top of the page.
  2. Click Service accounts.
  3. Scroll down to Firebase Admin SDK.
  4. Under the Firebase Admin SDK section, click Generate new private key.
  5. Click Generate key.
  6. Once the JSON is downloaded, open it.

It should look like this: 

{
  "type": "service_account",
  "project_id": "the-project-id",
  "private_key_id": "the-private-key-id",
  "private_key": "the-private-key",
  "client_email": "the-client-email",
  "client_id": "the-client-id",
  "auth_uri": "the-auth-uri",
  "token_uri": "the-token-uri",
  "auth_provider_x509_cert_url": "the-auth-provider-x509-cert-url",
  "client_x509_cert_url": "the-client-x509-cert-url"
}

Copy the private_key and paste it into the .env.local project files.

The file should look like this:

SERVICE_ACCOUNT_PRIVATE_KEY=the-private-key

Copy the client_email and paste it into the .env.local project files.

The file should look like this:

SERVICE_ACCOUNT_CLIENT_EMAIL=the-client-email

Copy the project_id and paste it into the .env.local project files.

The file should look like this:

SERVICE_ACCOUNT_PROJECT_ID=the-project-id