Firebase storage download the raw text I uploaded and not just the url

Question

I uploaded a raw String \'Test\' to the firebase storage using the sample provided here and it went through successfully.

But when I tried to \"downloa

Answer 1

The short answer is that in the Web Storage SDK you can only get a download URL that represents that data. You'll need to "download" the file using an XMLHttpRequest (or equivalent):

storageRef.child('path/to/string').getDownloadURL().then(function(url) {
  var XMLHttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
  XMLHttp.onreadystatechange = function() { 
    if (xmlHttp.readyState == 4 && xmlHttp.status == 200)
      var response = xmlHttp.responseText; // should have your text
  }
  XMLHttp.open("GET", url, true); // true for asynchronous 
  XMLHttp.send(null);
}).catch(function(error) {
  // Handle any errors from Storage
});