Upload image from URL to Firebase Storage

Question

I\'m wondering how to upload file onto Firebase\'s storage via URL instead of input (for example). I\'m scrapping images from a website and retrieving their URLS. I want to

Answer 1

There's no need to use Firebase Storage if all you're doing is saving a url path. Firebase Storage is for physical files, while the Firebase Realtime Database could be used for structured data.

Example . once you get the image url from the external site this is all you will need :

var externalImageUrl = 'https://foo.com/images/image.png';

then you would store this in your json structured database:

databaseReference.child('whatever').set(externalImageUrl);

OR

If you want to actually download the physical images straight from external site to storage then this will require making an http request and receiving a blob response or probably may require a server side language ..

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