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

Javascript solution to this using fetch command.

var remoteimageurl = "https://example.com/images/photo.jpg"
var filename = "images/photo.jpg"

fetch(remoteimageurl).then(res => {
  return res.blob();
}).then(blob => {
    //uploading blob to firebase storage
  firebase.storage().ref().child(filename).put(blob).then(function(snapshot) {
    return snapshot.ref.getDownloadURL()
 }).then(url => {
   console.log("Firebase storage image uploaded : ", url); 
  }) 
}).catch(error => {
  console.error(error);
});