Firestore - Get document collections

Question

i would to automate backup process of a firestore database. The idea is to loop over root document to build a JSON tree. but i didn\'t find a way to get all collections ava

Answer 1

As mentioned by others, on the server side you can use getCollections(). To get all the root-level collections, use it on the db like so:

const serviceAccount = require('service-accout.json');
const databaseURL = 'https://your-firebase-url-here';
const admin = require("firebase-admin");
admin.initializeApp({
    credential: admin.credential.cert(serviceAccount),
    databaseURL: databaseURL
});
const db = admin.firestore();
db.settings({ timestampsInSnapshots: true });
db.getCollections().then((snap) => {
    snap.forEach((collection) => {
        console.log(`paths for colletions: ${collection._referencePath.segments}`);
    });
});