how to solve "No module named crypto error

Question

I am trying to use the authentication feature in firebase for email and password/. i have the following code:

import pyrebase

firebaseConfig = {
  'apiKey': "AIzaSyDO80bIZpwVVTS2vpAzRiKBpha9nCIIHpg",
  'authDomain': "kintil-s-project2.firebaseapp.com",
  'databaseURL': "https://kintil-s-project2-default-rtdb.firebaseio.com",
  'projectId': "kintil-s-project2",
  'storageBucket': "kintil-s-project2.appspot.com",
  'messagingSenderId': "55270635464",
  'appId': "1:55270635464:web:e283b8301ead1df396f2fd",
  'measurementId': "G-WP9GZWXVBX"

}

firebase = pyrebase.initialize_app(firebaseConfig)

Auth = firebase.auth()

email = input('enter email')
password = input('enter password')

#Auth.create_user_with_email_and_password(email, password)

when i ran the above, i got the following error:

from Crypto.PublicKey import RSA
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Crypto'

what can i do to solve this problem.

PS i was having issue installing pycrytodome from cmd using pip, so i installed from pycharm.

Answer 1

Yes there is a problem with pycryptodome module while installing it with pip, so without the pycryptodome module pyrebase will not work properly. But there is good alternative for pyrebase , that is firebase-admin module by Google and it works like a charm with almost similar functionalities. It is very easy to switch to the firebase-admin module and here are the official docs of Firebase Admin Python SDK.

For your requirement here is the complete code,

import firebase_admin
from firebase_admin import credentials, auth

"""  To get the your service.json file, follow these steps
    1) Go to your firebase console and login
    2) Click on the Gear(settings) icon beside Poject Overview
    3) Then go to, Project Settings -> Service Accounts -> Click Generate new private key
    4) Your service.json file will be downloaded, added it to your main.py file directory
"""

# Initializing the firebase-admin
cred = credentials.Certificate('path/to/your/service.json')
firebase_admin.initialize_app(cred)

# Taking the email and password from user
your_email = input('enter email')
your_password = input('enter password')

# Creating the user with email and password
user = auth.create_user(email= your_email, password= your_password)
print(user.uid)

Edit

For more information visit the official Docs