How to send APNs push messages using APNs Auth Key and standard CLI tools?
If you have curl with HTTP/2 support and openssl with ECDSA support installed on your machine, you can use the following script to test push notifications using an APNs Auth Key:
#!/bin/bash
deviceToken=b27371497b85611baf9052b4ccfb9641ab7fea1d01c91732149c99cc3ed9342f
authKey="./APNSAuthKey_ABC1234DEF.p8"
authKeyId=ABC1234DEF
teamId=TEAM123456
bundleId=com.example.myapp
endpoint=https://api.development.push.apple.com
read -r -d '' payload <<-'EOF'
{
"aps": {
"badge": 2,
"category": "mycategory",
"alert": {
"title": "my title",
"subtitle": "my subtitle",
"body": "my body text message"
}
},
"custom": {
"mykey": "myvalue"
}
}
EOF
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
base64() {
openssl base64 -e -A | tr -- '+/' '-_' | tr -d =
}
sign() {
printf "$1" | openssl dgst -binary -sha256 -sign "$authKey" | base64
}
time=$(date +%s)
header=$(printf '{ "alg": "ES256", "kid": "%s" }' "$authKeyId" | base64)
claims=$(printf '{ "iss": "%s", "iat": %d }' "$teamId" "$time" | base64)
jwt="$header.$claims.$(sign $header.$claims)"
curl --verbose \
--header "content-type: application/json" \
--header "authorization: bearer $jwt" \
--header "apns-topic: $bundleId" \
--data "$payload" \
$endpoint/3/device/$deviceToken
NOTE: I use a slight variation of this script for testing on macOS with homebrew versions of curl and openssl: http://thrysoee.dk/apns/
Apple now have documentation for this method to Send a Push Notification Using a Token.
You can send push notification by NODE JS using Apple Push Notification Authentication Key (Sandbox & Production). There is a tutorial provided by Elad Nava in this link
This tutorial has all steps of creating the Apple Push Notification Authentication Key and setting up a local server to run Node JS code for sending push notification. You can run the code in your local machine and test the push notification.
Hope this will help.