Count subscribers of a topic in Firebase Cloud Messaging

Question

What I want to do with my app is this: users can select different interests and as soon as there are more than ~5 people interested in the same thing, I want to send them a notification.

I thought Firebase + Topics would be a good choice for this.

But how do I find out how many people have subscribed to a topic?

Answer 1

U can use this to get number of subscribers :

• Go to the Firebase Console "https://console.firebase.google.com/"
• Under Grow, click Cloud Messaging.
• Open up your developer tools.
• Click New Notification and type some title and message
• On Target Tab , click on Topic
• In the network tab in developer tool you will see a request to an url similar to this one https://gcmcontextualcampaign-pa.clients6.google.com/v1/4/projects/${projectId}/topics?prefix=%2Ftopics%2F&key=${key}

Copy as a curl. Use that to get subscribers list

Reference: https://gist.github.com/timrijckaert/218be90541a7285e21455fafa2962dea