Error: Failed to get Firebase project <project_name>. Please make sure the project exists and your account has permission to access it

[aseem-heg]

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Set up Flutter
        uses: subosito/flutter-action@v2
        with:
          channel: 'stable'
          cache: true

      - name: Build Web App
        run: flutter build web --dart-define=env=dev --dart-define=domain=pangea-dev-314501.uc.r.appspot.com

      - name: w9jds Deploy to Firebase
        uses: w9jds/firebase-action@master
        with:
          args: deploy
        env:
          GCP_SA_KEY: ${{ secrets.GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS }}

I am trying to deploy flutter app to Firebase. Deployment works fine from my local machine.
But on GHA I get error Error: Failed to get Firebase project <project_name>. Please make sure the project exists and your account has permission to access it

My GCP sv_account has permissions - Firebase Hosting Admin & Service Account User .

[felixgabler]

For me it fails with Error: Failed to get details for project: <PROJECT_NAME>. My service account also has all the necessary permissions. Could these be related?

[hotrush]

Same

[karanbangia]

Facing the same issue, the service account has all the necessary permission but still i am getting this error, but

[vincenz5]

Same. I'm wondering if the credentials secret should be the whole JSON from the service account or maybe just the key.

[peter-palmer]

Hi there,

I've come across the issue you're facing and found a solution that worked for me. The problem seems to be related to authentication with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) credentials when deploying to Firebase using GitHub Actions. Here's how I resolved it:

1. On your local machine, run firebase login. This will authenticate your Firebase CLI and give you a token. Please ensure you're logged into the correct Firebase project.

2. You'll receive a token that looks something like this: 1//03MosCTldCCgYIARPPGAMSTkF-L2IrO-W55quB6Pwn6w1335SwtTSXYbGGxleferiRdVSXTUL1x7QUkJaTKEGW-WaVpYFpSJK (Do not use this one as it's an example).

3. Convert this token to base64. You can use an online tool like https://www.base64encode.org/ for this purpose.

4. Next, go to the environment variables section of your GitHub repository by navigating to Settings -> Secrets and variables -> Actions -> New repository secret. Create two new repository secret named GCP_SA_KEY and GCP_SA_KEY_BASE64 paste the base64-encoded token you obtained as its value in this last one. The plain token in the GCP_SA_KEY.

5. Modify your GitHub Actions YAML file to use this token for authentication with Firebase. Here's how the updated part of your workflow should look:

# Deploying the functions to firebase
- name: Deploy to Firebase
  uses: w9jds/firebase-action@master
  with:
    args: deploy --only functions --token ${{ secrets.GCP_SA_KEY }}
  env:
    GCP_SA_KEY: ${{ secrets.GCP_SA_KEY_BASE64 }}

6. Save your changes and rerun your GitHub Actions workflow. This should resolve the issue and successfully deploy your Flutter app to Firebase.

I hope this solution works for you as well. Good luck!

[aixaCode]

Not sure if anyone still has this problem, but using personal token with GitHub Actions didn't seem very secure, and the actual issue was with permissions for the service account.

I got it fixed by granting access to "run as" the App Engine default Service Account"([PROJECT_ID]@appspot.gserviceaccount.com).

These roles and permissions did the trick for me:

Just putting it out there in case someone else runs into the same hurdle.