Firebase_upload

Goal: upload .txt files to Firebase Cloud Firestore in a Python script.

Files:

• 2010_01_10_weights.txt - input for the script that will be uploaded to Firebase
• upload_file.py - script that performs upload

Environment setup

Navigate to your working directory.

• python3 -m venv env sets up your virtual environment
• pip3 install --upgrade pip to make update pip version
• pip install firebase-admin to install Firebase credentials

Download .json certificate from Firebase Project and put it in wd

Notes on Firebase in Python

• db.collection('<collection id>').document('<document id>').set(data)
• data must be a python dict. Fill it exactly how you'd like your document to be structured.

Running upload script

python3 upload_file.py [filename]
[filename] doesn't need extension, and will automatically add .txt

Further iterations

• While this method works well for uploading a single file, if you have collected a lot of data, it might make more sense to be able to upload multiple files at once. Could implement it with bash scripting or in the python script itself.
• Dynamically create the data dictionary to properly type all variables instead of changing it on case-by-case basis for script.