Firebase Admin Private Key usage?

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dperolio posted this in #help-forum

2024-02-23T09:19:42.000Z

I'm going to pull my hair out. I'm using Next.js 14 and trying to put my Firebase private key in an .env file. I've also tried a .json file, but get the same issue. I get one of these 2 errors, depending on which method I try.

Getting metadata from plugin failed with error: error:1E08010C:DECODER routines::unsupported

Failed to parse private key: Error: Invalid PEM formatted message.

I've tried adding \n's, removing \n's manually and with code, I've tried encoding the key to base64 and then decoding it, I've tried converting it to JSON and parsing it. I've tried downgrading my Node, I've tried upgrading my Node. Nothing works.

Please help.

Answered by dperolio

Downgrading to Node 18 seems to "fix" it. Although it's giving me a permissions error for some reason when it shouldn't be.

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linesofcode

2024-02-23T09:24:31.000Z

first, what happens if you paste the key just into your javascript as a js object?

and then consume it like that?

confirm it works

if you can confirm that works, then do a JSON.stringify(key)

dperolioOP

2024-02-23T09:25:11.000Z

It works in my Astro project.

linesofcode

2024-02-23T09:25:38.000Z

and see if you can copy that into your env variables

dperolioOP

2024-02-23T09:27:42.000Z

I can't confirm it works, in Next. I can't get it to work, in any shape.

If I paste it in directly, I get the Getting metadata from plugin failed with error: error:1E08010C:DECODER routines::unsupported error. The key is definitely a valid private key though. I've generated a new, fresh one and tried that as well, but same issue.

I don't even know if it's Node's, Next's, or Firebase's fault.