upload .json file to firebase database using python

Question

I want to upload a entire JSON file to my Firebase Database, but I can't get it to run. I am new to Python and Firebase.

This is my code so far:

import firebase_admin
from firebase_admin import credentials
from firebase_admin import db
import json
import requests
from pprint import pprint



cred = credentials.Certificate("path/to/serviceAccountKey.json") 
firebase_admin.initialize_app(cred)



with open ('/Users/name/Desktop/Test.json') as data_file: data = json.load(data_file)
jsondata = json.dumps('/Users/name/Desktop/Test.json')



requests.put(url="https://myapp.firebaseio.com/", json= jsondata)

I get a error: <Response [400]>

Answer 1

Your code that performs the actual write operation:

requests.put(url="https://myapp.firebaseio.com/", json= jsondata)

This code does not in any way use the Admin SDK, but instead writes directly to the REST API of the Firebase Realtime Database.

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If you want to write using the REST API , it is possible, but you'll need to:

1. Ensure your REST call is authenticated, as shown in the documentation on authenticating REST requests .

2. Use a URL that ends with .json to ensure your call end up to the REST API. So:

    requests.put(url="https://myapp.firebaseio.com/.json", json= jsondata)

   Yes, that /.json at the end of the URL is normal.

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Alternatively you can continue to use the Admin SDK to write the data , but in that case you'll need to read and parse the JSON into your code, and send it to the database as a JavaScript object, as shown in the documentation on saving data with the Admin SDK .