ImportError: Failed to import the Cloud Firestore

Question

Trying to integrate Google firestore API at python server

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  File "/home/daffolap-355/repos/subscriptions/appvendor/firebase_admin/firestore.py", line 28, in <module>
    raise ImportError('Failed to import the Cloud Firestore library for Python. Make sure '
ImportError: Failed to import the Cloud Firestore library for Python. Make sure to install the "google-cloud-firestore" module.

I get this error here:

from firebase_admin import credentials, auth, firestore

I installed the firebase-admin module:

pip install --upgrade -t libs firebase-admin

And run the app

dev_appserver app.yaml

Answer 1

Google Cloud Firestore requires grpc.

pip install grpcio

However, there are additional steps depending on your OS. Check out https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/INSTALL.md

Answer 2

To solve the "google-cloud-firestore" module error do this:

• pip install google-cloud-core
• pip install google-cloud-firestore

And then import like this:

• import os
• import firebase_admin
• from firebase_admin import credentials
• from google.cloud import firestore
• from firebase_admin import firestore