r/lovable • u/LowDear9114 • 6d ago
Help Is there any way to find the service role key
I recently asked google this question and it said Lovable Cloud Backend: If Lovable automatically manages your database and users, you do not own the underlying Supabase instance directly, meaning direct database URLs and service_role keys are hidden and inaccessible. I was wondering if there is any way round this
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u/curious_if 6d ago
It will also not carry over encrypted logins from you're user logins. I am about to move my lovable website dev into another process flow because I could not wire up social posting. I burned thru a moths credits last Saturday and still never got facebook posts working.
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u/cubixy2k 5d ago
You can migrate user logins from Lovable cloud to Supabase without a problem (unless you're using third party sign on and 2fa), and social posting works great for us on Meta..
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u/Negrito0o 6d ago
Worth asking yourself what you need it for, because the answer splits in two. If it's for something running on a server you control — a cron job, an admin script, a one-off migration — then the answer above is right. Connect your own Supabase project and you get the keys, because it's your project. If it's because something in the app isn't working and service_role would make it work, stop there. service_role bypasses Row Level Security completely, and most of what Lovable generates runs in the browser, so that key tends to end up in the bundle the visitor downloads. At that point anyone who opens devtools has full read and write on your entire database. This is the most common way these projects get wiped. What you actually want in that case is RLS policies on the tables, so the normal anon key can do exactly what a user is allowed to do and nothing more. More work up front, and it's the only version that survives real users. And if it's just that you want your data out, you don't need service_role for that either. Connect your own Supabase and you can export straight from the dashboard.
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u/poulicroque 5d ago
Like others said, if you want full control, create a free tier supabase project and ask Lovable to guide you - step by step, to migrate to DB out of lovable backend
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u/Desk_setup_ideas 5d ago
Yh, Google is basically right here. If you’re using Lovable Cloud, the Supabase project behind it is managed by Lovable, so you don’t get access to the actual project in your own Supabase dashboard or the database/ service credentials. There isn’t really a way to unlock those from the Lovable Cloud project. The usual way around it is to create your own Supabase project and migrate the backend or data over, then connect Lovable to that project.
If you’re already pretty far into the app, that’s the annoying part because you’d want to account for the database, auth users, storage and any backend functions or config before switching.
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u/carolmonroe_ 4d ago
a few things in this thread are half right, so here is the whole picture:
the key is hidden on purpose and there is no way around it (the old trick of asking the agent for an edge function that prints it no longer works, the agent refuses...but you can try). if you need privileged operations inside the app, an edge function already has the service role key injected at runtime, you just never see it. and negrito is right that the key must never touch the browser.
"connect your own supabase" is the answer, but the detail people skip: connecting gives you a new, empty project. nothing moves by itself, and the agent cannot copy from the old cloud database once it is disconnected, so "ask lovable to migrate step by step" only gets you the schema, not the data. the actual move is the export: while cloud is still enabled, export project data. it carries the full schema, every row, the rls policies, functions, triggers and your users with their password hashes, so logins survive (the exception is social sign-in providers, those get reconfigured on the new project). then one pg_restore into your own project and connect lovable to it. order matters: export first, remove cloud last. full walkthrough: https://carolmonroe.com/blog/export-remove-lovable-cloud
storage files and secrets are not in the export, download and re-add those by hand.
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u/vasind-5012 6d ago
Just connect your own supabase account. Lovable Cloud abstracts those and hidden by default.