How do I access my Firebase Database via HTTP REST API?

Question

Thanks to this answer I am able to connect to Firebase 3 via HTTP REST API and an email/password. Logging in with this API returns an access token that is used to access the

Answer 1

So after communicating with technical support, here's my answer:

In your database rules, include something like this that is compatible with what you're doing:

{
"rules": {
"users": {
"$user_id": {
// grants write access to the owner of this user account
// whose uid must exactly match the key ($user_id)
".write": "$user_id === auth.uid",
".read": "$user_id === auth.uid"
}
    }
  } 
}

And in your database, create a users table, and within that, create a table with the name of your <user-id> of the authentication email/password account you are using. Within that table is the information you will be able to access via your access-key.

Then send a request like this:

https://samplechat.firebaseio-demo.com/users/<user-id>.json?auth=<access-key>

Where access-key is the key that can be known as idToken, id_Token, or access_key in JSON responses from Google.