python-firebase has been unmaintained for years and is no longer supported. Please consider using another library instead.
http://github.com/mikexstudios/python-firebase by Michael Huynh ([email protected])
A very simple wrapper for Firebase's REST API.
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Install python-firebase using pip:
pip install -e git://github.com/mikexstudios/python-firebase.git#egg=python-firebase
or with easy_install (not recommended):
easy_install http://github.com/mikexstudios/python-firebase/tarball/master
Note that python-firebase depends on requests (http://python-requests.org), a REST/http client for python. If you used pip or easy_install, the dependency should automatically be installed.
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Then simply import firebase at the top of your python script:
from firebase import Firebase
and then instantiate Firebase, passing in your root url:
f = Firebase('https://SampleChat.firebaseIO-demo.com/')
You may optionaly pass a Firebase authentication token to secure your calls:
f = Firebase('http://SampleChat.firebaseIO-demo.com/', auth_token="<my_firebase_auth_token>")
Now call the different methods of the Firebase class (see the Firebase REST API page: http://www.firebase.com/docs/rest-api.html and the source of
firebase/__init__.py
for what methods are available and how to call them). For example, to push a list of data:f = Firebase('https://SampleChat.firebaseIO-demo.com/message_list') r = f.push({'user_id': 'wilma', 'text': 'Hello'})
The response
r
is a dictionary containing Firebase's REST response:{"name":"-INOQPH-aV_psbk3ZXEX"}
django-firebase is BSD licensed.