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ImportError: No module named 'firebase_admin'
I ran into this error while trying to run a Python program within Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Virtual Machine (VM).
Here is the code section
''' python
import firebase_admin
from firebase_admin import credentials
from firebase_admin import firestore
'''
I received this error when running -
'''Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Data.py", line 28, in <module>
import firebase_admin
ImportError: No module named 'firebase_admin'
'''
To make sure I had the right packages I ran Google Cloud Components and returned this result
gcloud components list
Your current Cloud SDK version is: 204.0.0
The latest available version is: 207.0.0
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Components │
├──────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────┬───────────┤
│ Status │ Name │ ID │ Size │
├──────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼───────────┤
│ Update Available │ BigQuery Command Line Tool │ bq │ < 1 MiB │
│ Update Available │ Cloud SDK Core Libraries │ core │ 7.7 MiB │
│ Update Available │ Cloud Storage Command Line Tool │ gsutil │ 3.5 MiB │
│ Update Available │ gcloud Alpha Commands │ alpha │ < 1 MiB │
│ Update Available │ gcloud Beta Commands │ beta │ < 1 MiB │
│ Not Installed │ App Engine Go Extensions │ app-engine-go │ 153.3 MiB │
│ Not Installed │ Cloud Bigtable Command Line Tool │ cbt │ 4.9 MiB │
│ Not Installed │ Cloud Bigtable Emulator │ bigtable │ 4.3 MiB │
│ Not Installed │ Cloud Datalab Command Line Tool │ datalab │ < 1 MiB │
│ Not Installed │ Cloud Datastore Emulator │ cloud-datastore-emulator │ 18.0 MiB │
│ Not Installed │ Cloud Datastore Emulator (Legacy) │ gcd-emulator │ 38.1 MiB │
│ Not Installed │ Cloud Pub/Sub Emulator │ pubsub-emulator │ 33.4 MiB │
│ Not Installed │ Emulator Reverse Proxy │ emulator-reverse-proxy │ 14.5 MiB │
│ Not Installed │ Google Container Local Builder │ container-builder-local │ 4.5 MiB │
│ Not Installed │ Google Container Registry's Docker credential helper │ docker-credential-gcr │ 1.8 MiB │
│ Not Installed │ gcloud app Java Extensions │ app-engine-java │ 118.6 MiB │
│ Not Installed │ gcloud app PHP Extensions │ app-engine-php │ │
│ Not Installed │ gcloud app Python Extensions │ app-engine-python │ 6.1 MiB │
│ Not Installed │ gcloud app Python Extensions (Extra Libraries) │ app-engine-python-extras │ 28.5 MiB │
│ Not Installed │ kubectl │ kubectl │ 14.9 MiB │
└──────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┴───────────┘
I noticed that I was missing gcloud app Python and Python Extentions
So I ran the following commands:
sudo apt-get install google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-python
sudo apt-get install google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-python-extras
I reran the Google Cloud Components and saw that I was now up to date with the required components for my project.
But when I tried running my project I again ran into the issue of the missing firebase_admin module.
The missing ingredient turned out to be pip3
So I ran sudo apt-get install python3-pip
and
sudo pip3 install firebase_admin
and I was off and running!
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etharsayed3 commented Jun 15, 2020

Hey, I tried running the code but it gives me the same error:

pi@raspberrypi:~/Desktop/pyfirebase $ sudo python triall.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "triall.py", line 1, in
import firebase_admin.py
ImportError: No module named firebase_admin.py

I downloaded sudo pip3 install firebase_admin on my raspberry

and here is my code:
import firebase_admin

from firebase_admin import credentials
from firebase_admin import db

cred = credemtials.Certificate('firebase.json')
firebase_admin.initialize_app(cred,{
'databaseURL' : "https://raspberry-pi-197b8.firebaseio.com/"
})

ref = db.reference ('/')
ref.set ({
"employees":{
{"firstName":"John", "LastName" :" Doe"},
{"firstName" :"Anna", "lastName" : "Smith"},
{"firstName" : "Peter", "lastName" : "Jones"}
}
})

thank you in advance

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