Authenticated REST API data calls in Python

[Marcio Valenzuela]

Im trying to fetch some data from my app.

I've so far managed to fetch it from a javascript app by using a database initialization config code.  Im assuming that's one way of doing it, but I only know how to do it in javascript:

<script src="https://www.gstatic.com/firebasejs/3.4.0/firebase.js"></script>
<script>
  // Initialize Firebase
  var config = {
    apiKey: "mykey",
    authDomain: "myapp.firebaseapp.com",
    databaseURL: "https://myapp.firebaseio.com",
    storageBucket: "myapp.appspot.com",
    messagingSenderId: "698532324181"
  };
  firebase.initializeApp(config);
</script>

Then I use the signInWithEmailAndPassword() and then a ref.on('value') call.

I want to do it in Python and Im a bit confused by the changes in versions etc.  So far I seem to have found 2 ways of doing it, but I dont know how to use either:

from firebase import firebase
from firebase_token_generator import create_token
from firebase import FirebaseAuthentication // but this is greyed out in PyCharm for some reason


#Method A
firebase = firebase.FirebaseApplication('https://myapp.firebaseio.com')
authentication = firebase.Authentication('mypwd', 'myemail', extra={'id': 123})
firebase.authentication = authentication
print authentication.extra

user = authentication.get_user()
print user.firebase_auth_token

result = firebase.get('/timeoff', None)
print result

but when running it on PyCharm I get:

AttributeError: 'FirebaseApplication' object has no attribute 'Authentication'

#Method B
auth_payload = { "uid": "uniqueId1", "auth_data": "foo", "other_auth_data": "bar" }
token = create_token("<YOUR_FIREBASE_SECRET>", auth_payload)

but I dont know how to use this and I cant find my firebase secret.

Please help!

[Daniel Cortés]

In the git repo there's an example that helps a lot, the link is here.
The code is the following:

import datetime

from firebase.firebase
import FirebaseApplication, FirebaseAuthentication


if __name__ == '__main__':
    SECRET = '12345678901234567890'
DSN = 'https://firebase.localhost'
EMAIL = 'yo...@email.com'
authentication = FirebaseAuthentication(SECRET, EMAIL, True, True)
firebase = FirebaseApplication(DSN, authentication)

firebase.get('/users', None,
    params = {
        'print': 'pretty'
    },
    headers = {
        'X_FANCY_HEADER': 'very fancy'
    })

data = {
    'name': 'Ozgur Vatansever',
    'age': 26,
    'created_at': datetime.datetime.now()
}

snapshot = firebase.post('/users', data)
print(snapshot['name'])

def callback_get(response):
    with open('/dev/null', 'w') as f:
    f.write(response)
firebase.get_async('/users', snapshot['name'], callback = callback_get)

This is a demo app so no issue with the secret being public

Hope this helps!