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So I'm minding my own business trying to initializing a Firebase project in my Angular app when all of the sudden I'm hit with this error:

Error: Failed to list Firebase projects. See firebase-debug.log for more info.

To get to that point, I followed the instructions in the documentation here which are basically run:

$ npm install -g firebase-tools

$ firebase login // Turns out I was already logged in

$ firebase projects:list // Make sure you can access your account.

Anyway, back to the error. "Ok," I think. "I'll just check out the log it's pointing me to." I open the log and see:

HTTP Error: 401, Request had invalid authentication credentials. 
Expected OAuth 2 access token, login cookie or other valid authentication credential.
See https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/devconsole-project.`
`FirebaseError: HTTP Error: 401, Request had invalid authentication credentials.
Expected OAuth 2 access token, login cookie or other valid authentication credential.
See https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/devconsole-project.`

The part about "invalid authentication credentials" makes me think it has something to do with me not being logged into firebase but firebase login shows I am logged in.

The URL in the log just takes me to the docs for using firebase auth in my app. Well, I would love to. But first I need this command to work, Firebase.

Has anyone run into this/have a solution for it?

Soviut
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7 Answers7

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Update

The fix is:

$ firebase login --reauth

Thanks to @kynan in the comments for simplifying the original two-liner down to this one-liner.

If that doesn't work, you can also try logging out and logging back in like the original answer.

Original Answer

The fix is:

$ firebase logout

$ firebase login

It looks like when you upgrade firebase-tools, that may invalidate your auth token. You just have to log out and log back in.

Here's the message when you log out:

$ firebase logout
!  Invalid refresh token, did not need to deauthorize
+  Logged out from <email>
Soviut
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Patrick
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For people who don't want to logout, the below command will also work.

firebase login --reauth

Balasubramanian S
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for Who don't want to logout, the below command also work

firebase login --reauth

First go to command prompt and run below code then execute above code. In Command Prompt:

Run : powershell Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser

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use firebase logout to log out then use firebase login to log back in to firebase in the CLI

Do this after updating the firebase tools using npm install -g firebase-tools

After succesfull login, use firebase use --add to list all the projects you have

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  • The first 2 steps were okay in my own case. 'firebase use --add' failed since I wasn't running from a Firebase project directory. So I opted for 'firebase projects:list' which worked like charm!. Thanks – Okpo May 05 '23 at 10:36
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In my case that it couldn't list my firebase projects, I try to access firebase by vpn that I was installed on my system (not my browser), and it worked. Then I could initial firebase in my project as hosting and deploy it.

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Okay so for me it was the problem of the wifi I was using. Apparently the wifi had been denied access to firebase so I used vpn and it worked like charm. You can try using a vpn to see if it would come

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I encountered Exact same error but for a different reason. I was configuring Flutter app for Both iOS and Android. My bundleId contained a _ in it. so when I tried

flutterfire configure

Then my android app would configure just fine but iOS would not. and give this error. So if the above solution isn't working for you like me please check your bundleId or package Name. it can be the culprit.

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