Can I get the nth item of a firebase “query”?

Question

Firebase has some very basic query functionality with orderBy*, limitTo*, startAt(), etc. Is there a way to tell Firebase you want the

Answer 1

Note that in conjunction with @frank-van-puffelen 's answer, you can also use the shallow argument to the top-level query.

I don't know how this is translated to the JavaScript firebase API, but with curl, this would be something like:

curl 'https://your-site.firebaseio.com/questions.json?shallow=true'

which returns something like:

{
  "-Ju2tGTo6htY2e4mbuPO": true,
  "-Ju3AWjZnhnUw_OfGyk4": true,
  "-JughjjzbFOxjevE2ykY": true,
  "-Jw3cciI6ZpoK1ejfK58": true,
  "-Jw4NhcgJ9DnenBVphyq": true,
  "-JwE5ojQ5ZjkvTzVK9E2": true,
  "-JwE7Qbpf9r1YN8Qaoss": true,
  "-JwFIQ3pGMCI0E3xzPIz": true,
}

Then, once you've gotten your shallow list of items, you can query them one at a time in any order you want by accessing the key directly:

curl 'https://your-site.firebaseio.com/questions/-Ju2tGTo6htY2e4mbuPO.json'