Get Download URL from file uploaded with Cloud Functions for Firebase

Question

After uploading a file in Firebase Storage with Functions for Firebase, I\'d like to get the download url of the file.

I have this :

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Answer 1

Here's an example on how to specify the download token on upload:

const UUID = require("uuid-v4");

const fbId = "";
const fbKeyFile = "./YOUR_AUTH_FIlE.json";
const gcs = require('@google-cloud/storage')({keyFilename: fbKeyFile});
const bucket = gcs.bucket(`${fbId}.appspot.com`);

var upload = (localFile, remoteFile) => {

  let uuid = UUID();

  return bucket.upload(localFile, {
        destination: remoteFile,
        uploadType: "media",
        metadata: {
          contentType: 'image/png',
          metadata: {
            firebaseStorageDownloadTokens: uuid
          }
        }
      })
      .then((data) => {

          let file = data[0];

          return Promise.resolve("https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/" + bucket.name + "/o/" + encodeURIComponent(file.name) + "?alt=media&token=" + uuid);
      });
}

then call with

upload(localPath, remotePath).then( downloadURL => {
    console.log(downloadURL);
  });

The key thing here is that there is a metadata object nested within the metadata option property. Setting firebaseStorageDownloadTokens to a uuid-v4 value will tell Cloud Storage to use that as its public auth token.

Many thanks to @martemorfosis