# Connecting Your Python Project to Firebase: A Step-by-Step Guide

There could be a lot of reasons why you'd want to connect an underlying python project to your Firebase.

In my case, I generally use it for quick testing of data.

So let's see how to connect our Python scripts to our Firebase Project.

### In Firebase Console:

Go to Project Settings:

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1713896050815/a5c7ec60-738d-4c71-845d-9a2f7c16914d.png align="center")

Now go to service Accounts and click on Generate new private key:

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1713897151092/57d2d8fc-ce0b-4528-9c5a-1ec87d26dd2d.png align="center")

From the options presented above select python. Once you click on the generate new private key:

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1713897301498/c1a13f67-82eb-4969-8666-bc162bc9add7.png align="center")

<mark>Remember that you need to securely store the file as once the key is generated. It can't be created again.</mark>

In my scenario. I stored it in the following path:

`/Users/khkr/Documents/khkr-docs/Developer/PictureMenu/firebase-keys/pm-firebase-python-key.json`

### Firebase Admin SDK

If you are on Mac or Linux Environment. You can install the `firebase-admin-sdk` using the following command: [From Firebase Docs](https://firebase.google.com/docs/admin/setup#add-sdk)

```bash
sudo pip install firebase-admin
```

If you are on windows you can use the following command:

```bash
pip install firebase-admin
```

### Testing our Python Firebase Connection

We are going to test if our firebase connection is working by adding a small document to our Firestore.

This is my current Cloud Firestore:

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1713899289557/1b7938eb-c07b-4a0d-8fb8-62990d0d7fda.png align="center")

Now we are going to run the following python script to add a test object into our Firestore database

```python
import firebase_admin
from firebase_admin import credentials, firestore

# Initialize the Firebase app if it hasn't been initialized yet
if not firebase_admin._apps:
        #YOU SHOULD SET THE PATH FOR YOUR OWN PRIVATE KEY
    cred = credentials.Certificate('/Users/khkr/Documents/khkr-docs/Developer/PictureMenu/firebase-keys/pm-firebase-python-key.json')
    firebase_admin.initialize_app(cred)

# Access Firestore
db = firestore.client()

# Define the data to be added
test_data = {
    'name': 'Test User',
    'timestamp': firestore.SERVER_TIMESTAMP,
    'active': True,
    'score': 100
}

# Reference to the Firestore collection
collection_ref = db.collection('python-test')

# Add data to the collection
try:
    doc_ref = collection_ref.add(test_data)
    print(f'Data added to Firestore with document ID: {doc_ref[1].id}')
except Exception as e:
    print(f'Failed to add data to Firestore: {e}')
```

Here is terminal output

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1713899503174/391b92c1-5edf-4e3c-ad7b-4f707222e4ff.png align="center")

And this is the our firestore:

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1713899531319/97539cbc-7ed9-4bbf-9fcf-5a5459054bab.png align="center")

And there you go. You have successfully connected your Python project to your Firebase 🎉.