Google Firebase is one of the best “free hosting” solution to host your static files like HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PDF and a considerable list out there. The Google Firebase offers lightning-fast content delivery throughout the globe, and the reason many bloggers, app developers and students are using Firebase to host a variety of files for different purposes.
You can even host your static website with your custom domain name at Google Firebase, which offers free SSL Certificate as well. I’ve already written an article on How to Host a website for free with Google Firebase so. I am not going to mention here the same again.
Google Firebase is very easy to use, but on another hand, it lacks basic features such as pull code or the download code for the synchronisation. In this article, I’ve listed the two ways to download your previously uploaded files on Google Firebase Hosting if in case you have lost your data stored locally on your computer.
Here are the two ways to download the website and the files hosting on the Google Firebase:
You can download your website using the HTTrack software, which enables users to download any website. HTTrack is available for free to download and is known as the website copier.
To download your website hosted on Firebase using HTTrack :
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Now, what if you have hosted a bulk of files and the names or the URL of files are unknown? Well, the next step will guide you in downloading the files whose names or the URL is not known.
There is a mind storming solution which I call it downloading the file manually. In this method first, we will find the names of the files hosted on your Firebase using the Firebase CLI.
To download the files manually from Firebase Hosting :
npm install -g firebase-tools
firebase login
firebase deploy --debug
Firebase deploy –debug command will generate debugging code which will include the list of the files that you have uploaded with other relevant and useful information.
Now, to download the files, you can follow these steps :