Firestore Backup Script - using Firebase Admin Python SDK

Installation

First install and setup Firebase Admin Python SDK: https://firebase.google.com/docs/admin/setup

Then install it in your python environment:

pip install firebase-admin

Install the Firestore module:

pip install google-cloud-core pip install google-cloud-firestore

(from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48264536/importerror-failed-to-import-the-cloud-firestore-library-for-python)

Python Code

# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-

import firebase_admin
from firebase_admin import credentials, firestore
import json

cred = credentials.Certificate('xxxxx-adminsdk-xxxxx-xxxxxxx.json') # from firebase project settings
default_app = firebase_admin.initialize_app(cred, {
    'databaseURL' : 'https://xxxxx.firebaseio.com'
})

db = firebase_admin.firestore.client()

# add your collections manually
collection_names = ['myFirstCollection', 'mySecondCollection']
collections = dict()
dict4json = dict()
n_documents = 0

for collection in collection_names:
    collections[collection] = db.collection(collection).get()
    dict4json[collection] = {}
    for document in collections[collection]:
        docdict = document.to_dict()
        dict4json[collection][document.id] = docdict
        n_documents += 1

jsonfromdict = json.dumps(dict4json)

path_filename = "/mypath/databases/firestore.json"
print "Downloaded %d collections, %d documents and now writing %d json characters to %s" % ( len(collection_names), n_documents, len(jsonfromdict), path_filename )
with open(path_filename, 'w') as the_file:
    the_file.write(jsonfromdict)

Documentation Reference

https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/admin/python/firebase_admin.firestore