name: Google Firebase
description: Google Firebase is a comprehensive app development platform that provides backend services, SDKs, and APIs for building and scaling mobile and web applications, including authentication, real-time databases, cloud messaging, hosting, and analytics.
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created: '2026-03-13'
modified: '2026-04-28'
specificationVersion: '0.18'
tags:
  - Analytics
  - Authentication
  - Backend as a Service
  - Cloud Messaging
  - Google Cloud
  - Hosting
  - Mobile
  - Real-Time Database
apis:
  - name: Firebase Realtime Database API
    description: >-
      The Firebase Realtime Database API provides RESTful access to Firebase's
      cloud-hosted NoSQL database. It enables developers to store and sync data
      in real time across all connected clients using JSON. The API supports
      reading, writing, updating, and deleting data, along with server-sent
      events for real-time streaming and query filtering.
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    humanURL: https://firebase.google.com/docs/database
    baseURL: https://firebaseio.com
    tags:
      - Database
      - JSON
      - NoSQL
      - Real-Time
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/rest/database
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/firebase-realtime-database-openapi.yml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/google-firebase-database-node-schema.json
  - name: Firebase Cloud Messaging API (FCM)
    description: >-
      The Firebase Cloud Messaging API enables developers to send notifications
      and data messages to client apps on Android, iOS, and the web. The HTTP v1
      API provides per-platform message customization, topic messaging, device
      group messaging, and delivery tracking. It uses OAuth 2.0 for authentication
      and supports both notification and data payloads.
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    humanURL: https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging
    baseURL: https://fcm.googleapis.com
    tags:
      - Messaging
      - Mobile
      - Push Notifications
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/fcm/rest/v1/projects.messages
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/firebase-cloud-messaging-openapi.yml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/google-firebase-fcm-message-schema.json
  - name: Firebase Authentication REST API
    description: >-
      The Firebase Authentication REST API enables developers to manage user
      authentication using email/password, phone, and federated identity providers
      such as Google, Facebook, and Apple. The API supports creating and signing
      in users, verifying tokens, managing user accounts, sending verification
      emails, and password resets through the Identity Toolkit endpoints.
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    humanURL: https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth
    baseURL: https://identitytoolkit.googleapis.com
    tags:
      - Authentication
      - Identity
      - Users
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/rest/auth
  - name: Firebase Hosting REST API
    description: >-
      The Firebase Hosting REST API allows developers to programmatically manage
      web hosting deployments on Firebase. It supports creating new releases,
      managing site versions, uploading files, configuring custom domains, and
      managing release channels for preview deployments.
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    humanURL: https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting
    baseURL: https://firebasehosting.googleapis.com
    tags:
      - Deployment
      - Hosting
      - Web
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/hosting/rest
  - name: Firebase Remote Config API
    description: >-
      The Firebase Remote Config API enables developers to change the behavior and
      appearance of their apps without requiring users to download an update. The
      API allows publishing new Remote Config templates, managing conditions and
      parameters, and rolling back to previous configurations.
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    humanURL: https://firebase.google.com/docs/remote-config
    baseURL: https://firebaseremoteconfig.googleapis.com
    tags:
      - Configuration
      - Feature Flags
      - Remote Config
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/remote-config/rest
common:
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://firebase.google.com/docs
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://firebase.google.com/pricing
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://firebase.google.com/docs/admin/setup
  - type: Console
    url: https://console.firebase.google.com
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://firebase.google.com/docs/libraries
  - type: Support
    url: https://firebase.google.com/support
  - type: Status
    url: https://status.firebase.google.com
  - type: JSON-LD
    url: json-ld/google-firebase-context.jsonld
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com