Firebase Db Http Api Auth: When And How To Refresh Jwt Token?

I'm trying to make a Python webapp write to Firebase DB using HTTP API (I'm using the new version of Firebase presented at Google I/O 2016). My understanding so far is that the spe

Solution 1:

Thanks for the code example. I got it working better by using the credentials.authorize function which creates an authenticated wrapper for http.

from oauth2client.service_account import ServiceAccountCredentials
from httplib2 import Http
import json

_BASE_URL = 'https://my-app-id.firebaseio.com'
_SCOPES = [
    'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email',
    'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/firebase.database'
] 

# Get the credentials to make an authorized call to firebase    
credentials = ServiceAccountCredentials.from_json_keyfile_name(
    _KEY_FILE_PATH, scopes=_SCOPES)

# Wrap the http in the credentials.  All subsequent calls are authenticated
http_auth = credentials.authorize(Http())

def post_object(path, objectToSave):
  url = _BASE_URL + path

  resp, content = http_auth.request(
      uri=url,
      method='POST',
      headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
      body=json.dumps(objectToSave),
  )

  return content

objectToPost = {
  'title': "title",
  'message': "alert"
}

print post_object('/path/to/write/to.json', objectToPost)