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Tapas Mukherjee
Tapas Mukherjee

Reputation: 2178

Get other's Firebase display name and photo URL from ID in Ionic3

I am using Firebase in my Ionic3 app. I am storing other user's ID as friend data. How can I get the Display name and photo URL for other users from their ID?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1269

Answers (1)

bojeil
bojeil

Reputation: 30818

You can't get that from a client API and rightfully so as it would a security/privacy issue. You should use the Firebase Admin SDKs (eg: https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/admin/manage-users#retrieve_user_data ), they allow you to lookup users by user ID. you get back a UserRecord which contains the displayName and photoURL along with all the user's data.

Upvotes: 2

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