I am using the Python client to query Firestore data and the data is stored in a gzip (compressed) format encoded. I am not sure what the encoding is but using Pako ungzip in Typescript and Base64 decoding solves it.
However, in Python gzip uncompress and Base64 does not appear to work as the blob contains non ASCII characters:
ValueError: string argument should contain only ASCII characters
When I try to decompress straight away, I get:
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
Any ideas on what to do with this blob?
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