Managing Firebase Realtime Database Rules via REST

Updating Firebase Realtime Database Rules

Using the REST API, you can write and update Firebase Realtime Database Rules for your Firebase app by making a PUT request to the /.settings/rules.json path. To do this, we'll need our Firebase Secret which can be found on the Database section of the Firebase console settings.

In this example, we enable read access for all data in our Firebase database:

curl -X PUT -d '{ "rules": { ".read": true } }' 'https://docs-examples.firebaseio.com/.settings/rules.json?auth=FIREBASE_SECRET'

Retrieving Firebase Realtime Database Rules

Similarly, we can make a GET request to the /.settings/rules.json path of our app's URL to retrieve our Firebase Realtime Database Rules:

curl 'https://docs-examples.firebaseio.com/.settings/rules.json?auth=FIREBASE_SECRET'

The response will contain all of the rules for our app.