Prerequisite: Third-party connectors are available only on the Sana Enterprise tier, with one exception: the Workday connector is included for both Sana Core and Sana Enterprise.

Introduction

Connect Firebase to Sana to manage your Firestore documents and Realtime Database records. Create, read, update, and list documents in your collections directly from the conversation.

In summary, the connector has the following key characteristics:

Category: Engineering
Connector type: Real-time
Auth type: API keys
Hosting type: Managed

Capabilities

This connector is able to do the following:

Capability

List documents

Read documents

Create documents

Update documents

Create Realtime records

Tools

While the capabilities above describe what the connector can do at a high level, the underlying tools show exactly which operations the agent can use when you ask Sana about Firebase. In practice, the agent may call one or more tools to achieve a single capability.

Tool

Create document

Create realtime db record

Get document

List documents

Replicate event firestore

Update document

Note: This article lists the connector's full set of tools. Your workspace owner can disable individual tools for your workspace, so some of those listed here may not be available to your agents. If a tool you expected is missing, reach out to your workspace owner.

Triggers

While tools are the actions an agent takes on your behalf, triggers are the events that can start an agent automatically. When you build an agent, you can choose one of the triggers below as its starting point. For example, having the agent run every time something new happens in Firebase.

Trigger

New Child Object in a Realtime Database

New Document in Firestore Collection

Scope and permissions

This connector uses API keys. When you connect your account, we securely store your keys to connect to this connector's APIs. The scopes for this connector depends on the scopes you assign your API key in Firebase when generating the key.

Set up instructions

Prerequisites:

You are a Sana Enterprise user – all third-party connectors except the Workday connector are available only for users on the Sana Enterprise tier.
Your Sana workspace owner has enabled this connector – if the workspace owner has disabled the connector it won't appear in the list of available connectors.

Step 1: Go to the connectors page in Sana

In Sana, click on your profile icon and name in the bottom left corner and select Connectors.

Step 2: Find Firebase in the list of available connectors

Scroll to the Available connectors section and locate Firebase.

Note: If you can't find a connector in this list, it means one of the following:

You've already connected it — check the ”Active connectors” section at the top of the connectors page, or
Your workspace owner has disabled this connector for your workspace — reach out to them for more information or to request that it be enabled.

Step 3: Hover the connector card and click the connect button

Hover the Firebase card and click the Connect button.

Tip: If you click the card itself instead of the Connect button, you'll open a connector detail page with more information about its capabilities.

Step 4: Initialize the Pipedream connection

When clicking Connect in the previous step, a pop-up will appear powered by Pipedream. Click the Continue button in the pop-up to initialize the set up.

Note: Sana uses Pipedream to connect your account. Pipedream is a Workday product, trusted by millions of people to keep their data secure.

Step 5: Provide your Firebase credentials

You'll be asked to paste the credentials for Firebase so Sana can store them securely and use them to call the connector's APIs on your behalf.

Step 6: Complete the set up

You've successfully connected your Firebase account. Click Continue to complete the setup and start using the connector.