Verify requests from Google Chat

For apps built on HTTP endpoints, this section explains how to verify that the requests to your endpoint come from Chat.

To dispatch interaction events to your Chat app's endpoint, Google makes requests to your service. To verify that the request is coming from Google, Chat includes a bearer token in the Authorization header of every HTTPS request to your endpoint. For example:

POST
Host: yourappurl.com
Authorization: Bearer AbCdEf123456
Content-Type: application/json
User-Agent: Google-Dynamite

The string AbCdEf123456 in the preceding example is the bearer authorization token. This is a cryptographic token produced by Google. You can verify your bearer token using an open source Google API client library:

For the bearer tokens sent in Chat requests, the issuer is chat@system.gserviceaccount.com and the audience field is set to the number of the Google Cloud project that you used to build your Chat app. For example, if your Chat app's Cloud project number is 1234567890, then the audience field in the bearer token is 1234567890.

If the token doesn't verify for the Chat app, your service should respond to the request with an HTTPS response code 401 (Unauthorized).

Java

import java.io.IOException;
import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
import java.util.Collections;

import com.google.api.client.googleapis.auth.oauth2.GoogleIdToken;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.auth.oauth2.GoogleIdTokenVerifier;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.auth.oauth2.GooglePublicKeysManager;
import com.google.api.client.http.apache.ApacheHttpTransport;
import com.google.api.client.json.gson.GsonFactory;
import com.google.api.client.json.JsonFactory;

/** Tool for verifying JWT Tokens for Apps in Google Chat. */
public class JWTVerify {
  // Bearer Tokens received by apps will always specify this issuer.
  static String CHAT_ISSUER = "chat@system.gserviceaccount.com";

  // Url to obtain the public certificate for the issuer.
  static String PUBLIC_CERT_URL_PREFIX =
      "https://www.googleapis.com/service_accounts/v1/metadata/x509/";

  // Intended audience of the token, which is the project number of the app.
  static String AUDIENCE = "1234567890";

  // Get this value from the request's Authorization HTTPS header.
  // For example, for "Authorization: Bearer AbCdEf123456" use "AbCdEf123456"
  static String BEARER_TOKEN = "AbCdEf123456";

  public static void main(String[] args) throws GeneralSecurityException, IOException {
    JsonFactory factory = new GsonFactory();

    GooglePublicKeysManager.Builder keyManagerBuilder =
        new GooglePublicKeysManager.Builder(new ApacheHttpTransport(), factory);

    String certUrl = PUBLIC_CERT_URL_PREFIX + CHAT_ISSUER;
    keyManagerBuilder.setPublicCertsEncodedUrl(certUrl);

    GoogleIdTokenVerifier.Builder verifierBuilder =
        new GoogleIdTokenVerifier.Builder(keyManagerBuilder.build());
    verifierBuilder.setIssuer(CHAT_ISSUER);
    GoogleIdTokenVerifier verifier = verifierBuilder.build();

    GoogleIdToken idToken = GoogleIdToken.parse(factory, BEARER_TOKEN);
    if (idToken == null) {
      System.out.println("Token cannot be parsed");
      System.exit(-1);
    }

    // Verify valid token, signed by CHAT_ISSUER, intended for a third party.
    if (!verifier.verify(idToken)
        || !idToken.verifyAudience(Collections.singletonList(AUDIENCE))
        || !idToken.verifyIssuer(CHAT_ISSUER)) {
      System.out.println("Invalid token");
      System.exit(-1);
    }

    // Token originates from Google and is targeted to a specific client.
    System.out.println("The token is valid");
  }
}

Python

import sys

from google.oauth2 import id_token
from google.auth.transport import requests

# Bearer Tokens received by apps will always specify this issuer.
CHAT_ISSUER = 'chat@system.gserviceaccount.com'

# Url to obtain the public certificate for the issuer.
PUBLIC_CERT_URL_PREFIX = 'https://www.googleapis.com/service_accounts/v1/metadata/x509/'

# Intended audience of the token, which will be the project number of the app.
AUDIENCE = '1234567890'

# Get this value from the request's Authorization HTTPS header.
# For example, for 'Authorization: Bearer AbCdEf123456' use 'AbCdEf123456'.
BEARER_TOKEN = 'AbCdEf123456'

try:
  # Verify valid token, signed by CHAT_ISSUER, intended for a third party.
  request = requests.Request()
  certs_url = PUBLIC_CERT_URL_PREFIX + CHAT_ISSUER
  token = id_token.verify_token(BEARER_TOKEN, request, AUDIENCE, certs_url)

  if token['iss'] != CHAT_ISSUER:
    sys.exit('Invalid issuer')
except:
  sys.exit('Invalid token')

# Token originates from Google and is targeted to a specific client.
print('The token is valid')

Node.js

import fetch from 'node-fetch';
import {OAuth2Client} from 'google-auth-library';

// Bearer Tokens received by apps will always specify this issuer.
const CHAT_ISSUER = 'chat@system.gserviceaccount.com';

// Url to obtain the public certificate for the issuer.
const PUBLIC_CERT_URL_PREFIX =
    'https://www.googleapis.com/service_accounts/v1/metadata/x509/';

// Intended audience of the token, which is the project number of the app.
const AUDIENCE = '1234567890';

// Get this value from the request's Authorization HTTPS header.
// For example, for "Authorization: Bearer AbCdEf123456" use "AbCdEf123456"
const BEARER_TOKEN = 'AbCdEf123456';

const client = new OAuth2Client();

/** Verifies JWT Tokens for Apps in Google Chat. */
async function verify() {
  // Verify valid token, signed by CHAT_ISSUER, intended for a third party.
  try {
    const response = await fetch(PUBLIC_CERT_URL_PREFIX + CHAT_ISSUER);
    const certs = await response.json();
    const ticket = await client.verifySignedJwtWithCertsAsync(
        BEARER_TOKEN, certs, AUDIENCE, [CHAT_ISSUER]);
  } catch (unused) {
    console.error('Invalid token');
    process.exit(1);
  }

  // Token originates from Google and is targeted to a specific client.
  console.log('The token is valid');
}

verify();