How do I export data from Firebase Realtime Database?

Question

I am developing with Firebase and have data stored in the Realtime Database. I need to share my database structure for a question here on Stack Overflow, or just take a back

Answer 1

There is an Node.js tool called firebase-export, similar to firebase-import but not from Firebase itself, that will export JSON from the command line.

Firebase export helper utility for exporting excluded JSON from Firebase.

To install

npm install -g firebase-export

Usage example

$ firebase-export --database_url https://test.firebaseio-demo.com --firebase_secret '1234' --exclude 'settings/*, users/*/settings'

Github Repo

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Note: Firebase has a REST API, so you can use any language to retrieve (export) data:

curl 'https://[PROJECT_ID].firebaseio.com/users/jack/name.json'

Here's an example curl request with filters

curl 'https://dinosaur-facts.firebaseio.com/dinosaurs.json?orderBy="height"&startAt=3&print=pretty'