How can I view the files I uploaded to firebase? - firebase

I have some projects I created on firebase and am trying to view the photos I uploaded however I can't seem to find an option in the menu that takes me to them. All I see is the amount of data being used. When I click on storage it just takes me to the page to setup storage in the app, which I already did. Can someone help with this?

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We're developing a PHP console app that will be a running as a daemon using the PEAR System_Daemon class. The script is ideally a timed loop, that executes indefinitely until terminated.
What this loop does is query a database of players of our FB game on timed intervals, and then make posts using certain criteria to their Facebook walls/timelines.
Our app will be hosted on our Facebook page, which will also contain some albums, photos and videos that we are using to feature on these posts.
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My question is, whether we would be able to use the Facebook PHP SDK to, from within our console application, running as a service, share these albums from our console app, as posts on the users timeline, without having need for confirmation from the FB user in any way, providing we have acquired the appropriate extended permissions of course.
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