How to export data from firestore using vscode

Question

I want to export data from firestore.

I tried running the following code.

firebase firestore:export data.json

Tried multiple things and still can get an output file with the data in my database.

Error: firestore:export is not a Firebase command

To fix the error I uninstall the :

npm uninstall -g firebase-tools

npm cache clean --force

Then I run firebase --version, which is really up to date.

Answer 1

You're confusing two separate command line tools:

• gcloud from the Google Cloud Platform
• firebase from Firebase

The firestore export command is only present in the gcloud CLI, and documented here and here. There is no equivalent command in the Firebase CLI, for which the options are documented here.