firebase_admin.firestore module

Cloud Firestore module.

This module contains utilities for accessing the Google Cloud Firestore databases associated with Firebase apps. This requires the google-cloud-firestore Python module.

Functions

client

firebase_admin.firestore.client(app=None) Client

Returns a client that can be used to interact with Google Cloud Firestore.

Parameters:

app – An App instance (optional).

Returns:

A Firestore Client.

Return type:

google.cloud.firestore.Firestore

Raises:

ValueError – If a project ID is not specified either via options, credentials or environment variables, or if the specified project ID is not a valid string.