I want to upload nested folders and files to a Google Cloud Bucket.
So far I used this command line to do so:
gsutil -m cp -R [dir] gs://[bucket]
it works, but when I go to Firebase console, I cannot generate an access token for the uploaded files.
If I upload the same file manually the access token is generated automatically.
I wonder if there's a way to make gsutil to upload in a manner that files will have access token.
Appreciate your hints and conversations
Download URLs are normally only generated by the Firebase SDK for Cloud Storage.
Luckily though somebody figured out that if you set the right metadata for a file, that gives it a download URL too. Since metadata can be set through gsutil, that means it should be possible to also generate download URLs like that.
See:
Get Download URL from file uploaded with Cloud Functions for Firebase, for the metadata to set
The gsutil documentation on setting metadata
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I'm trying to access/download files that have been uploaded to Firebase storage but I can't figure out how to. Some of the files have a create new access token button under the storage location which gives me a link to the file on the web. Unfortunately, this is only a few files and seems to only be ones uploaded from localhost?
I can't find any reference to this on the documentation, this should be achievable through the Firebase dashboard?
I've tried setting the access rules to allow reads in all cases which hasn't helped.
Thanks
In general, you're supposed to use getDownloadURL(), as shown in the documentation, from within your web or mobile app to generate a download URL for use within your app. Typically, the console is only used to revoke the tokens that enable to download of each file through that URL.
If that's not specifically what you're trying to do, perhaps you want to read up on other was to make data public in Cloud Storage. The Firebase console is not really the best mechanism to manage downloadable content.
Today I have uploaded my website on Firebase hosting and in the process of doing that I have to create two rules files, one is storage.rules and another one is firestore.rules. I also have to create a firestore.indexes.json file. But I can remember previously I didn't have to create any such file while uploading another website on Firebas host.
I need to get rid of these 3 files, because every time I upload my files It changed to private rules for both storage and cloud which is unnecessary for me. I need to remain them public. Besides that I can't open these 2 rules files to edit (using Mac) just at least to see what is inside of them. How can I do it, Thanks!
It sounds like you use the Firebase CLI to initialize several products in the same project, including Cloud Storage and Firestore. If you don't want to work with these other products in your project files, you shouldn't select them during initialization.
The easiest thing to do would be to start over in a new directory and initialize only the products you want to use. It sounds like that's only Firebase Hosting.
You could also edit firebase.json and remove the products you don't want to use any more.
If you do want to work with Storage and Firestore, but you only want to deploy to Hosting, then just use firebas deploy --only hosting.
I have an app that all it does is to present PDF documents that is stored in Firebase.
I've created a collection in Firestore with all the relevant information for the documents (title, description etc.) and all is left to do is to provide a download URL to the PDF itself.
I've uploaded the PDF manually to Firebase Storage, but I couldn't find a way to manually copy the file URL in order to paste it in the Firestore.
How can I add the URL for the files Manually? (My client doesn't write code and he needs to update the files constantly).
Thank you!
Simply click the link shown in the picture below, then copy the URL it directs you to.
I'm using Firebase Cloud Functions to generate an HTML file and now I'd like to host it together with related assets (js, css, fonts etc.) but without success.
I call the function, it generates the file properly and puts it in Firebase Storage together with js/css/other assets. Now I would like to return a URL of the index.html file so that the user can access it in the browser and the .html page will have access to the assets. Unfortunately the generated URL enforces download but I'm pretty sure that even if I managed it somehow, it won't be able to access asset files.
I know it's possible on AWS (S3 bucket) but can I do it on Firebase? Firebase Hosting doesn't seem to be the right solution in that case, does it?
Don't save it to Storage, that's a bad use case for this scenario. Instead, save it to Hosting:
https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/
Also, you can consider serving the content directly from the cloud function, probably there's no need to create a static version first.
I downloaded a Unity project that use images stored in Firebase server using the following link:
https://zplayer360-86b30.firebaseapp.com
Now I want to reproduce this with my own file. I created a Firebase project using Firebase Console, uploaded manually the images, but now I click "copy folder url" button and it provide me only this link:
gs://insidehome-29c9e.appspot.com/
I need a free HTTP public link.
How can I obtain this?
When you upload a file to Firebase Storage, it automatically gets:
a Google Storage URL (starting with gs://), which you can use to access the file through the Firebase Storage SDK and the Google Storage API.
a download URL (starting with https://), which is a publicly-readable-but-non-guessable URL that you can use to download the URL with regular HTTP clients
What you're looking for is the second URL, which you can find in the Firebase Storage console when you select a file:
At the bottom right you can see the download URLs for the file. One of these is auto-created when you upload the file, but you can create more of them or revoke existing ones.
I am not entirely sure what you mean by "free" URL. The link is publicly readable, but downloads will count against your Firebase Storage download quota of course.
If there are no rules on Firebase storage. You are not protected.
Then it's publicly-readable-and-guessable, One can convert gs:// URL to https:// to download any file without Google SDK's.
https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/[projectID].appspot.com/o/[folderName]%2F[fileName]
Google Storage URL
gs://invitepeople-5d38c.appspot.com/profilePhotos/profile_1.jpg
Https downloadable URL
https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/invitepeople-5d38c.appspot.com/o/profilePhotos%2Fprofile_1.jpg?alt=media
Don't guess profile_2.jpg :)