You can let your users authenticate with Firebase using their Facebook accounts
by integrating Facebook Login into your app. You can integrate Facebook Login
either by using the Firebase SDK to carry out the sign-in flow, or by carrying
out the Facebook Login flow manually and passing the resulting access token to
Firebase.
On the Sign in method tab, enable the Facebook sign-in
method and specify the App ID and App Secret you got from Facebook.
Then, make sure your OAuth redirect URI (e.g. my-app-12345.firebaseapp.com/__/auth/handler)
is listed as one of your OAuth redirect URIs in your Facebook app's settings page on the
Facebook for Developers site in the
Product Settings > Facebook Login config.
Handle the sign-in flow with the Firebase SDK
If you are building a web app, the easiest way to authenticate your users
with Firebase using their Facebook accounts is to handle the sign-in flow with
the Firebase JavaScript SDK. (If you want to authenticate a user in Node.js
or other non-browser environment, you must handle the sign-in flow manually.)
To handle the sign-in flow with the Firebase JavaScript SDK, follow these
steps:
Create an instance of the Facebook provider object:
var provider = new firebase.auth.FacebookAuthProvider();
Optional: To localize the provider's OAuth flow to the user's preferred
language without explicitly passing the relevant custom OAuth parameters, update the language
code on the Auth instance before starting the OAuth flow. For example:
firebase.auth().languageCode = 'it';
// To apply the default browser preference instead of explicitly setting it.
// firebase.auth().useDeviceLanguage();
Optional: Specify additional custom OAuth provider parameters
that you want to send with the OAuth request. To add a custom parameter, call
setCustomParameters on the initialized provider with an object containing the key
as specified by the OAuth provider documentation and the corresponding value. For example:
Authenticate with Firebase using the Facebook provider object. You can
prompt your users to sign in with their Facebook accounts either by opening a
pop-up window or by redirecting to the sign-in page. The redirect method is
preferred on mobile devices.
To sign in with a pop-up window, call signInWithPopup:
firebase
.auth()
.signInWithPopup(provider)
.then((result) => {
/** @type {firebase.auth.OAuthCredential} */
var credential = result.credential;
// The signed-in user info.
var user = result.user;
// This gives you a Facebook Access Token. You can use it to access the Facebook API.
var accessToken = credential.accessToken;
// ...
})
.catch((error) => {
// Handle Errors here.
var errorCode = error.code;
var errorMessage = error.message;
// The email of the user's account used.
var email = error.email;
// The firebase.auth.AuthCredential type that was used.
var credential = error.credential;
// ...
});
Then, you can also retrieve the Facebook provider's OAuth token by calling
getRedirectResult when your page loads:
firebase.auth()
.getRedirectResult()
.then((result) => {
if (result.credential) {
/** @type {firebase.auth.OAuthCredential} */
var credential = result.credential;
// This gives you a Facebook Access Token. You can use it to access the Facebook API.
var token = credential.accessToken;
// ...
}
// The signed-in user info.
var user = result.user;
}).catch((error) => {
// Handle Errors here.
var errorCode = error.code;
var errorMessage = error.message;
// The email of the user's account used.
var email = error.email;
// The firebase.auth.AuthCredential type that was used.
var credential = error.credential;
// ...
});
If you enabled the One account per email address setting in the Firebase console,
when a user tries to sign in a to a provider (such as Facebook) with an email that already
exists for another Firebase user's provider (such as Google), the error
auth/account-exists-with-different-credential is thrown along with an
AuthCredential object (Facebook access token). To complete the sign in to the
intended provider, the user has to sign first to the existing provider (Google) and then link to the
former AuthCredential (Facebook access token).
Popup mode
If you use signInWithPopup, you can handle
auth/account-exists-with-different-credential errors with code like the following
example:
// Step 1.
// User tries to sign in to Facebook.
auth.signInWithPopup(new firebase.auth.FacebookAuthProvider()).catch(function(error) {
// An error happened.
if (error.code === 'auth/account-exists-with-different-credential') {
// Step 2.
// User's email already exists.
// The pending Facebook credential.
var pendingCred = error.credential;
// The provider account's email address.
var email = error.email;
// Get sign-in methods for this email.
auth.fetchSignInMethodsForEmail(email).then(function(methods) {
// Step 3.
// If the user has several sign-in methods,
// the first method in the list will be the "recommended" method to use.
if (methods[0] === 'password') {
// Asks the user their password.
// In real scenario, you should handle this asynchronously.
var password = promptUserForPassword(); // TODO: implement promptUserForPassword.
auth.signInWithEmailAndPassword(email, password).then(function(result) {
// Step 4a.
return result.user.linkWithCredential(pendingCred);
}).then(function() {
// Facebook account successfully linked to the existing Firebase user.
goToApp();
});
return;
}
// All the other cases are external providers.
// Construct provider object for that provider.
// TODO: implement getProviderForProviderId.
var provider = getProviderForProviderId(methods[0]);
// At this point, you should let the user know that they already has an account
// but with a different provider, and let them validate the fact they want to
// sign in with this provider.
// Sign in to provider. Note: browsers usually block popup triggered asynchronously,
// so in real scenario you should ask the user to click on a "continue" button
// that will trigger the signInWithPopup.
auth.signInWithPopup(provider).then(function(result) {
// Remember that the user may have signed in with an account that has a different email
// address than the first one. This can happen as Firebase doesn't control the provider's
// sign in flow and the user is free to login using whichever account they own.
// Step 4b.
// Link to Facebook credential.
// As we have access to the pending credential, we can directly call the link method.
result.user.linkAndRetrieveDataWithCredential(pendingCred).then(function(usercred) {
// Facebook account successfully linked to the existing Firebase user.
goToApp();
});
});
});
}
});
Redirect mode
This error is handled in a similar way in the redirect mode, with the difference that the pending
credential has to be cached between page redirects (for example, using session storage).
Advanced: Handle the sign-in flow manually
You can also authenticate with Firebase using a Facebook account by handling
the sign-in flow with the Facebook Login JavaScript SDK:
Integrate Facebook Login into your app by following the
developer docs.
Be sure to configure Facebook Login with your Facebook app ID:
<script src="//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js"></script>
<script>
FB.init({
/**********************************************************************
* TODO(Developer): Change the value below with your Facebook app ID. *
**********************************************************************/
appId : '<YOUR_FACEBOOK_APP_ID>',
status : true,
xfbml : true,
version : 'v2.6'
});
</script>
We also setup a listener on the Facebook auth state:
In the Facebook auth state callback, exchange the auth token from Facebook's auth response for a Firebase credential and sign-in Firebase:
function checkLoginState(response) {
if (response.authResponse) {
// User is signed-in Facebook.
var unsubscribe = firebase.auth().onAuthStateChanged((firebaseUser) => {
unsubscribe();
// Check if we are already signed-in Firebase with the correct user.
if (!isUserEqual(response.authResponse, firebaseUser)) {
// Build Firebase credential with the Facebook auth token.
var credential = firebase.auth.FacebookAuthProvider.credential(
response.authResponse.accessToken);
// Sign in with the credential from the Facebook user.
firebase.auth().signInWithCredential(credential)
.catch((error) => {
// Handle Errors here.
var errorCode = error.code;
var errorMessage = error.message;
// The email of the user's account used.
var email = error.email;
// The firebase.auth.AuthCredential type that was used.
var credential = error.credential;
// ...
});
} else {
// User is already signed-in Firebase with the correct user.
}
});
} else {
// User is signed-out of Facebook.
firebase.auth().signOut();
}
}
This is also where you can catch and handle errors. For a list of error codes have a look at the Auth Reference Docs.
Also you should check that the Facebook user is not already signed-in Firebase to avoid un-needed re-auth:
function isUserEqual(facebookAuthResponse, firebaseUser) {
if (firebaseUser) {
var providerData = firebaseUser.providerData;
for (var i = 0; i < providerData.length; i++) {
if (providerData[i].providerId === firebase.auth.FacebookAuthProvider.PROVIDER_ID &&
providerData[i].uid === facebookAuthResponse.userID) {
// We don't need to re-auth the Firebase connection.
return true;
}
}
}
return false;
}
To authenticate with Firebase in a Node.js application:
Sign in the user with their Facebook Account and get the user's Facebook
access token. For example, sign in the user in a browser as described in
the Handle the sign-in
flow manually section, but send the access token to your Node.js
application instead of using it in the client app.
After you get the user's Facebook access token, use it to build a
Credential object and then sign in the user with the credential:
// Sign in with the credential from the Facebook user.
firebase.auth().signInWithCredential(credential)
.then((result) => {
// Signed in
var credential = result.credential;
// ...
})
.catch((error) => {
// Handle Errors here.
var errorCode = error.code;
var errorMessage = error.message;
// The email of the user's account used.
var email = error.email;
// The firebase.auth.AuthCredential type that was used.
var credential = error.credential;
// ...
});
In the Authentication section, open the Sign-in method page.
Add a URI like the following to the list of Authorized Domains:
chrome-extension://CHROME_EXTENSION_ID
Only popup operations (signInWithPopup and linkWithPopup) are available
to Chrome extensions, as Chrome extensions cannot use HTTP redirects. You should call these methods
from a background script rather than a browser action popup, as the authentication popup will cancel
the browser action popup.
In your Chrome extension's manifest file make sure that you add the
https://apis.google.com URL to the content_security_policy allowlist.
Customizing the redirect domain for Facebook sign-in
On project creation, Firebase will provision a unique subdomain for your project:
https://my-app-12345.firebaseapp.com
This will also be used as the redirect mechanism for OAuth sign in. That domain would need to be
allowed for all supported OAuth providers. However, this means that users may see that
domain while signing in to Facebook before redirecting back to the application:
Continue to: https://my-app-12345.firebaseapp.com
To customize the URL in the message to show a custom domain:
Continue to: https://auth.custom.domain.com
Create a CNAME record for your custom domain that points to your project's subdomain on
firebaseapp.com:
Add your custom domain to the list of authorized domains in the
Firebase console: auth.custom.domain.com.
In the Facebook developer console or OAuth setup page, whitelist the URL of the redirect page,
which will be accessible on your custom domain:
https://auth.custom.domain.com/__/auth/handler.
When you initialize the JavaScript library, specify your custom domain with the
authDomain field:
After a user signs in for the first time, a new user account is created and
linked to the credentials—that is, the user name and password, phone
number, or auth provider information—the user signed in with. This new
account is stored as part of your Firebase project, and can be used to identify
a user across every app in your project, regardless of how the user signs in.
In your apps, the recommended way to know the auth status of your user is to
set an observer on the Auth object. You can then get the user's
basic profile information from the User object. See
Manage Users.
In your Firebase Realtime Database and Cloud Storage
Security Rules, you can
get the signed-in user's unique user ID from the auth variable,
and use it to control what data a user can access.