fcm-django
Send push notifications to mobile devices and browsers through FCM in Django.
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
Yes. The package is actively maintained, supports current Django and Python versions, has no known vulnerabilities, and provides a well-documented, low-friction integration layer for Firebase Cloud Messaging in Django projects. Install it if you need to send push notifications from a Django application.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires firebase-admin to be initialized; set GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable to point to your Firebase service account JSON file, or pass credentials explicitly to initialize_app().
- Low install friction with a pure Python wheel.
- Maintenance is active with recent commits and a stable codebase supporting Django 4.2 through 5.2 and Python 3.10 through 3.14.
License · maintenance · safety
MIT (permissive) — MIT license permits free use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions, making it suitable for both open-source and commercial projects.
last release 2026-04-07 (129 days) · last repo commit 2026-04-07 · 794 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 299,530 downloads/mo, #7,859 on PyPI
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pip install fcm-django
# In settings.py:
INSTALLED_APPS = [..., "fcm_django"]
FIREBASE_APP = initialize_app() # from firebase_admin
# Send a message:
from firebase_admin.messaging import Message
from fcm_django.models import FCMDevice
device = FCMDevice.objects.first()
device.send_message(Message(data={"key": "value"}))- Whether firebase-admin>=6.9 is strictly required or only for async queryset operations
- Performance characteristics when sending to large device populations
- Specific error handling patterns beyond the documented FirebaseError and ValueError
What it is and what it does
fcm-django bridges Django applications with Firebase Cloud Messaging, providing a model-based interface to manage FCM device registrations and send push notifications. It wraps firebase-admin to handle the complexity of FCM's HTTP v1 API, storing device tokens in a Django model with metadata like device type, user association, and active status, then offering queryset methods to send messages to single or bulk device collections.
The package automates common operational tasks: it marks devices inactive when notifications fail to deliver, provides Django admin integration for testing and management, emits signals when devices are deactivated, and returns detailed batch response metadata so applications can inspect per-device failures. It supports notification messages (with title, body, image) and data messages, with optional dry-run validation before actual delivery.
Use it for
- Send targeted push notifications to mobile app users by querying the FCMDevice model and calling send_message() with a Message object.
- Automatically prune inactive devices by letting the library mark failed-delivery devices as inactive and optionally delete them.
- Test notification payloads during development using dry_run=True to validate message structure without sending real notifications.
- Manage multi-device scenarios where one user may have multiple registered devices, using ONE_DEVICE_PER_USER setting to enforce single-device-per-user rules.
- Inspect batch send failures via response.failed_registration_ids and response.failed_exceptions to diagnose configuration or credential issues.
- Integrate with Django admin to manually send test notifications and view device registration status.
Worth the install?
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Yes.
The package is actively maintained, supports current Django and Python versions, has no known vulnerabilities, and provides a well-documented, low-friction integration layer for Firebase Cloud Messaging in Django projects. Install it if you need to send push notifications from a Django application.
Install
fcm-django on PyPI
Before you install
Low install friction with a pure Python wheel. Maintenance is active with recent commits and a stable codebase supporting Django 4.2 through 5.2 and Python 3.10 through 3.14.
Requires firebase-admin to be initialized; set GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable to point to your Firebase service account JSON file, or pass credentials explicitly to initialize_app().
License in practice
MIT license permits free use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions, making it suitable for both open-source and commercial projects.
Quickstart
pip install fcm-django
# In settings.py:
INSTALLED_APPS = [..., "fcm_django"]
FIREBASE_APP = initialize_app() # from firebase_admin
# Send a message:
from firebase_admin.messaging import Message
from fcm_django.models import FCMDevice
device = FCMDevice.objects.first()
device.send_message(Message(data={"key": "value"}))Verify before relying
- Whether firebase-admin>=6.9 is strictly required or only for async queryset operations
- Performance characteristics when sending to large device populations
- Specific error handling patterns beyond the documented FirebaseError and ValueError
Package facts
| License | MIT permissive |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release >=3.10 |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 3 packagesfirebase-adminDjangoswapper |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained 129 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 299,530 / month, #7,859 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | Development Status :: 5 - Production/StableEnvironment :: Web EnvironmentFramework :: DjangoFramework :: Django :: 4.2Framework :: Django :: 5.1Framework :: Django :: 5.2Intended Audience :: DevelopersProgramming Language :: PythonProgramming Language :: Python :: 3Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python ModulesTopic :: System :: Networking |
Evidence: fcm_django-3.2.0-py3-none-any.whl
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