Get storage space used in a folder in Firebase Storage

Question

I'm creating a Firebase app that you can use to upload files. How can I get the amount of space used by a user in his folder (users/{userId}/{allPaths=**}) ?

Answer 1

Great question. In short, there's no easy way to do this (even for us!) since this effectively requires that we recurse over an entire set of files and sum them all up. It's a pretty big mapreduce that isn't efficient to run every time a file is uploaded.

We do however, return the size of an individual file in the metadata.size property, so you can perform your own list call on a server (look at gcloud`) which will give you a list of files and "folders". Take the sizes of the files and add them up, then recurse and do the same for all subfolders. Sum them up, and write them something like the Firebase Realtime Database, where you can easily grab the folder sizes from clients.