Firebase web: Storage Location from Download URL

Question

I'm writing a firebase function where i need storage location. Right now i have download url:

Is there a way to get Storage location like this:

from the given download url?

When you say "Firebase function", do you mean you're writing backend code with Cloud Functions for Firebase? Or are you writing client side code? Are you just trying to convert a https download URL to a gs URL? — Doug Stevenson, Jun 13 '17 at 23:23
Yes, i'm writing backend code with Cloud Functions for Firebase. And yes i want to convert a https download URL to a gs URL. — Rishabh Chandel, Jun 14 '17 at 08:15
Is something wrong with [refFromUrl](https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/js/firebase.storage.Storage#refFromURL)? Seems like what you're looking for. See also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42956250/get-download-url-from-file-uploaded-with-cloud-functions-for-firebase — Kato, Jun 14 '17 at 19:19

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 14 '17 at 19:25

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The description for refFromURl says that it returns a Reference and accepts:

A URL in the form: 
1) a gs:// URL, for example gs://bucket/files/image.png 
2) a download URL taken from object metadata.

Based on this, I'd expect the following to work fine:

const downloadUrl = "https://firestorage.googleapis...";
const gsUrl = firebase.storage().refFromUrl(downloadUrl).toString();

answered Jun 14 '17 at 19:25

Kato

Whenever i use firebase.storage() i get error firebase.storage is not a function. I know i have to use google cloud storage, but for that too i get gcs.ref is not a function. Anyway i needed bucket and filepath only from gs url which i manipulated from http url itself. Thanks though for your feedback. – Rishabh Chandel Jun 14 '17 at 19:40
Hello Kato, would you know the answer to this ? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44758262/how-to-implement-steam-auth-with-firebase – TheProgrammer Jun 27 '17 at 12:02

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