python firebase realtime listener
Solution 1
As Peter Haddad suggested, you should use Pyrebase for achieving something like that given that the python SDK still does not support realtime event listeners.
import pyrebase
config = {
"apiKey": "apiKey",
"authDomain": "projectId.firebaseapp.com",
"databaseURL": "https://databaseName.firebaseio.com",
"storageBucket": "projectId.appspot.com"
}
firebase = pyrebase.initialize_app(config)
db = firebase.database()
def stream_handler(message):
print(message["event"]) # put
print(message["path"]) # /-K7yGTTEp7O549EzTYtI
print(message["data"]) # {'title': 'Pyrebase', "body": "etc..."}
my_stream = db.child("posts").stream(stream_handler)
Solution 2
If Anybody wants to create multiple listener using same listener function and want to get more info about triggered node, One can do like this.
Normal Listener function will get a Event object it has only Data, Node Name, Event type. If you add multiple listener and You want to differentiate between the data change. You can write your own class and add some info to it while creating object.
class ListenerClass:
def __init__(self, appname):
self.appname = appname
def listener(self, event):
print(event.event_type) # can be 'put' or 'patch'
print(event.path) # relative to the reference, it seems
print(event.data) # new data at /reference/event.path. None if deleted
print(self.appname) # Extra data related to change add your own member variable
Creating Objects:
listenerObject = ListenerClass(my_app_name + '1')
db.reference('PatientMonitoring', app= obj).listen(listenerObject.listener)
listenerObject = ListenerClass(my_app_name + '2')
db.reference('SomeOtherPath', app= obj).listen(listenerObject.listener)
Full Code:
import firebase_admin
from firebase_admin import credentials
from firebase_admin import db
# Initialising Database with credentials
json_path = r'E:\Projectz\FYP\FreshOnes\Python\PastLocations\fyp-healthapp-project-firebase-adminsdk-40qfo-f8fc938674.json'
my_app_name = 'fyp-healthapp-project'
xyz = {'databaseURL': 'https://{}.firebaseio.com'.format(my_app_name),'storageBucket': '{}.appspot.com'.format(my_app_name)}
cred = credentials.Certificate(json_path)
obj = firebase_admin.initialize_app(cred,xyz , name=my_app_name)
# Create Objects Here, You can use loops and create many listener, But listener will create thread per every listener, Don't create irrelevant listeners. It won't work if you are running on machine with thread constraint
listenerObject = ListenerClass(my_app_name + '1') # Decide your own parameters, How you want to differentiate. Depends on you
db.reference('PatientMonitoring', app= obj).listen(listenerObject.listener)
listenerObject = ListenerClass(my_app_name + '2')
db.reference('SomeOtherPath', app= obj).listen(listenerObject.listener)
Twing90
Updated on June 06, 2022Comments
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Twing90 about 2 years
Hi there I'm new in python. I would like to implement the listener on my Firebase DB. When I change one or more parameters on the DB my Python code have to do something. How can I do it? Thank a lot
my db is like simple list of data from 001 to 200:
"remote-controller" 001 -> 000 002 -> 020 003 -> 230
my code is:
from firebase import firebase firebase = firebase.FirebaseApplication('https://remote-controller.firebaseio.com/', None) result = firebase.get('003', None) print result
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Twing90 about 6 yearscan you send me some example or redirect me to a webpage??
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Doug Stevenson about 6 yearsI already linked you to the page for the Firebase Admin SDK. Start there.