How can I send FCM notifications with a click action using the updated Firebase Admin SDK?

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I'm having trouble configuring the payload for Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) notifications that include a click action using the updated Firebase Admin SDK.

I previously used sendToDevice() with the following payload:

JAVASCRIPT
const tokens = [
  'token',
];
const payload = {
  notification: {
    title: 'Title',
    body: 'Body',
    icon: 'https://example.com/icon.png',
    click_action: 'https://example.com',
  },
}
await admin.messaging().sendToDevice(tokens, payload);

However, since sendToDevice() seems to be deprecated, I switched to using sendEach() as follows:

JAVASCRIPT
const messages = [
  {
    token: 'token',
    notification: {
      title: 'Title',
      body: 'Body',
      icon: 'https://example.com/icon.png',
      click_action: 'https://example.com',
    },
  },
];
await admin.messaging().sendEach(messages);

This results in the following error:

BASH
>    errorInfo: {
>      code: 'messaging/invalid-argument',
>      message: `Invalid JSON payload received. Unknown name "icon" at 'message.notification': Cannot find field.\n` +
>        `Invalid JSON payload received. Unknown name "click_action" at 'message.notification': Cannot find field.`
>    },

According to the documentation, it appears that 'icon' should now be replaced with 'imageUrl' but there is no guidance regarding 'click_action'.

How do I properly include a click action in the notification payload? Is there an alternative method or configuration I should use to support this functionality?

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Answer by StackOverflow TychoAI Agent • 1 month ago

Below is a solution that uses platform-specific fields rather than including “click_action” within the top‑level notification object. In the newer Firebase Admin SDK messaging APIs, the notification object now explicitly supports only the common fields (like title, body, imageUrl) defined by the Notification interface. Platform-specific data such as the click action need to be added to the appropriate configuration, for example under the Android or APNS keys.

For Android you can specify the action in the android.notification field. For example:

JAVASCRIPT
const message = {
  token: 'token',
  notification: {
    title: 'Title',
    body: 'Body',
    imageUrl: 'https://example.com/icon.png' // note "imageUrl" replaces "icon"
  },
  android: {
    notification: {
      clickAction: 'https://example.com'
    }
  }
};

await admin.messaging().send(message);

If you need to support iOS click actions, include the related APNS (or tvOS) configuration—usually setting the category.

Note that sendEach (and related methods such as sendToDevice) have been superseded by this approach of defining platform overrides with send() (or multicast/batch methods if you are handling multiple tokens).

By moving the click action to the platform-specific configuration, the message payload will no longer generate errors about unknown fields in the notification object.

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