Create daily push notification using Firebase Cloud Messaging

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In the Firebase console we can set a specific time and date when will our notification will be push. But is there a way that we can set it daily? For example it will send every Monday, Wednesday and Friday or everyday?

score 15 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 23 '18 at 18:51

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Recurring messages are available in FCM now. May be helpful to someone.

answered Nov 23 '18 at 18:51

Shyju M

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is there a way to do this programmatically ? – Chris Dec 29 '22 at 14:51
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its not working. Its working nonsense. Once per user for this message. So every user just take the message once. What the daily do i dont know. There is a problem with this. – vitralyoz Apr 08 '23 at 18:43
@vitralyoz I have the same feeling, do you have any solution to send daily per user? – shtse8 May 14 '23 at 13:49

score 11 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 02 '20 at 08:43

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Push campaigns with Firebase Notifications can be sent now or later (scheduled).

You could probably switch to Firebase Cloud Messaging, use their HTTP API and then build a cron script to trigger your notifications automatically on these days.

Or switch to a more mature product like Parse Server, Batch.com or anything else as they usually provide that daily/weekly/monthly recurring push notifications feature.

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answered May 23 '16 at 14:00

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It's been 2 years, has anything changed? – Babken Vardanyan Apr 30 '18 at 06:17
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@BabkenVardanyan nothing changed, Firebase Console is still very basic when it comes to push notifications scheduling. You can send "Now" or "Later" but you can *not* setup a recurring (daily) scenario. You can still play with Firebase Functions to setup a cron with this https://github.com/firebase/functions-cron and then trigger the notification with Firebase Cloud Messaging API. Contrary to Firebase, Batch.com provides a way to schedule daily recurring notifications, see https://batch.com/doc/dashboard/push/timing-delivery.html#_recurring. – Antoine Guénard Apr 30 '18 at 16:01
Thanks, I ended up writing a cron job. – Babken Vardanyan Apr 30 '18 at 16:03
UPDATE: You can set up the daily recurring FCM notifications now. – Adi Jul 02 '19 at 14:56

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 15 '20 at 07:29

If you want to schedule functions to run at specified times, use functions.pubsub.schedule().onRun() This convenience method creates a Google Cloud Pub/Sub topic and uses Google Cloud Scheduler to trigger events on that topic, ensuring that your function runs on the desired schedule.

https://firebase.google.com/docs/functions/schedule-functions

Create daily push notification using Firebase Cloud Messaging

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