I have built a Python Firebase Function that sends out an external API request using the ‘requests’ library. For example:

# Setup firebase tools
from firebase_functions import options, https_fn
from firebase_admin import initialize_app
import requests

initialize_app()

@https_fn.on_request(
    cors=options.CorsOptions(
        cors_origins="*",
        cors_methods=["get", "post"]
    )
)
def entity_requests(request: https_fn.Request) -> https_fn.Response:
    """This is a firebase function that calls out to an external API"""

    # Example API request
    response = requests.get('https://api.example.com/data')
    status = response.status_code
    data = response.json()

    return https_fn.Response(data, status=status)

I can run the request on my local machine no problem, but when I try to run it in the firebase function, I get a response saying “The Url field is not a valid fully-qualified http, https, or ftp URL.” Any ideas why this is? Side note, I am paying for the blaze plan.

At this point I’m not exactly sure what to try. As I mentioned, I made sure my request code was good by testing it locally and had no issues. Now I am trying to figure out why it wont work when invoked inside the firebase function.