Firebase storage
You can configure ImageKit.io to fetch images from your Firebase storage. This allows you to start using ImageKit.io real-time image resizing, optimization, and fast CDN delivery for thousands or millions of existing images within minutes. Also, you get to leverage Firebase's authentication and authorization in your application.
Note: We do not start copying images from your storage as soon as you add the origin. Instead, we will fetch the particular image when you request it through ImageKit.io URL-endpoint. Learn more to understand how this works. The images accessed from this origin will not appear in your Media library.
- 1.Go to the external storage section in your ImageKit.io dashboard, and under the Origins section, click on the "Add origin" button.
- 2.Choose Web server from the origin type dropdown.
- 3.Give your origin a name. It will appear in the list of origins you have added. For example - My Firebase Storage.
- 4.Enter
https://firebasestorage.googleapis.comin the base URL field. - 5.
- 6.Click on the Submit button.
When you add your first origin in the dashboard, the origin is by default made accessible through the default URL-endpoint of your ImageKit.io account. For subsequent origins, you can either create a separate URL-endpoint or edit existing URL-endpoint (including default) and make this newly added origin accessible by editing the origin preference list.
Let's look at a few examples to fetch the images:
- Original image through Firebase storage (old URL) https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/rest-of-the-path.jpg?alt=media&token={TOKEN}
- The same master image using ImageKit.io URL-endpoint https://ik.imagekit.io/your_imagekit_id/rest-of-the-path.jpg?alt=media&token={TOKEN}
So when you request
https://ik.imagekit.io/your_imagekit_id/rest-of-the-path.jpg?alt=media&token={TOKEN}, ImageKit.io internally fetches the file from https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/rest-of-the-path.jpg?alt=media&token={TOKEN}URL structure
URL-endpoint transformation image path
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https://ik.imagekit.io/your_imagekit_id/tr:w-300,h-300/rest-of-the-path.jpg
To start using the ImageKit.io URL-endpoint in your application you will need to replace the base URL of images in your application code. Here are the steps and code samples:
- 1.Get the Firebase URL for the asset by calling
.getDownloadURL()method on the storage reference. - 2.In the above download URL replace
https://firebasestorage.googleapis.comwith your ImageKit.io URL-endpoint.
Web
iOS
Android (Java)
storageRef.child('images/stars.jpg').getDownloadURL().then(function(url) {
// `url` is the download URL for 'images/stars.jpg'
// Replace the firebase URL with ImageKit.io URL-endpoint
url = url.replace("https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com","https://ik.imagekit.io/your_imagekit_id");
// This can be downloaded directly:
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.responseType = 'blob';
xhr.onload = function(event) {
var blob = xhr.response;
};
xhr.open('GET', url);
xhr.send();
// Or inserted into an <img> element:
var img = document.getElementById('myimg');
img.src = url;
}).catch(function(error) {
// Handle any errors
});
// Create a reference to the file you want to download
let starsRef = storageRef.child("images/stars.jpg")
// Fetch the download URL
starsRef.downloadURL { url, error in
if let error = error {
// Handle any errors
} else {
/*
Replace https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com
with your ImageKit.io URL-endpoint.
*/
let imageKitURL = url.replacingOccurrences(of: "https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com", with: "https://ik.imagekit.io/your_imagekit_id")
// Use imageKitURL in your application
}
}
storageRef.child("users/me/profile.png").getDownloadUrl().addOnSuccessListener(new OnSuccessListener<Uri>() {
@Override
public void onSuccess(Uri uri) {
// Got the download URL for 'users/me/profile.png'
/*
Replace https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com
with your ImageKit.io URL-endpoint.
*/
}
}).addOnFailureListener(new OnFailureListener() {
@Override
public void onFailure(@NonNull Exception exception) {
// Handle any errors
}
});
Now start using ImageKit.io URL endpoint in your application to accelerate image loading.
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