## Google Firestore (Native Mode)

> [Google Cloud Firestore](https://cloud.google.com/firestore) is a serverless document-oriented database that scales to meet any demand. Extend your database application to build AI-powered experiences leveraging `Firestore's` Langchain integrations.

This notebook goes over how to use [Google Cloud Firestore](https://cloud.google.com/firestore) to store chat message history with the `FirestoreChatMessageHistory` class.

Learn more about the package on [GitHub](https://github.com/googleapis/langchain-google-firestore-python/).

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## Before You Begin[​](#before-you-begin "Direct link to Before You Begin")

To run this notebook, you will need to do the following:

*   [Create a Google Cloud Project](https://developers.google.com/workspace/guides/create-project)
*   [Enable the Firestore API](https://console.cloud.google.com/flows/enableapi?apiid=firestore.googleapis.com)
*   [Create a Firestore database](https://cloud.google.com/firestore/docs/manage-databases)

After confirmed access to database in the runtime environment of this notebook, filling the following values and run the cell before running example scripts.

### 🦜🔗 Library Installation[​](#library-installation "Direct link to 🦜🔗 Library Installation")

The integration lives in its own `langchain-google-firestore` package, so we need to install it.

```
%pip install -upgrade --quiet langchain-google-firestore
```

**Colab only**: Uncomment the following cell to restart the kernel or use the button to restart the kernel. For Vertex AI Workbench you can restart the terminal using the button on top.

```
# # Automatically restart kernel after installs so that your environment can access the new packages# import IPython# app = IPython.Application.instance()# app.kernel.do_shutdown(True)
```

### ☁ Set Your Google Cloud Project[​](#set-your-google-cloud-project "Direct link to ☁ Set Your Google Cloud Project")

Set your Google Cloud project so that you can leverage Google Cloud resources within this notebook.

If you don’t know your project ID, try the following:

*   Run `gcloud config list`.
*   Run `gcloud projects list`.
*   See the support page: [Locate the project ID](https://support.google.com/googleapi/answer/7014113).

```
# @markdown Please fill in the value below with your Google Cloud project ID and then run the cell.PROJECT_ID = "my-project-id"  # @param {type:"string"}# Set the project id!gcloud config set project {PROJECT_ID}
```

### 🔐 Authentication[​](#authentication "Direct link to 🔐 Authentication")

Authenticate to Google Cloud as the IAM user logged into this notebook in order to access your Google Cloud Project.

*   If you are using Colab to run this notebook, use the cell below and continue.
*   If you are using Vertex AI Workbench, check out the setup instructions [here](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/generative-ai/tree/main/setup-env).

```
from google.colab import authauth.authenticate_user()
```

## Basic Usage[​](#basic-usage "Direct link to Basic Usage")

### FirestoreChatMessageHistory[​](#firestorechatmessagehistory "Direct link to FirestoreChatMessageHistory")

To initialize the `FirestoreChatMessageHistory` class you need to provide only 3 things:

1.  `session_id` - A unique identifier string that specifies an id for the session.
2.  `collection` : The single `/`\-delimited path to a Firestore collection.

```
from langchain_google_firestore import FirestoreChatMessageHistorychat_history = FirestoreChatMessageHistory(    session_id="user-session-id", collection="HistoryMessages")chat_history.add_user_message("Hi!")chat_history.add_ai_message("How can I help you?")
```

#### Cleaning up[​](#cleaning-up "Direct link to Cleaning up")

When the history of a specific session is obsolete and can be deleted from the database and memory, it can be done the following way.

**Note:** Once deleted, the data is no longer stored in Firestore and is gone forever.

### Custom Client[​](#custom-client "Direct link to Custom Client")

The client is created by default using the available environment variables. A [custom client](https://cloud.google.com/python/docs/reference/firestore/latest/client) can be passed to the constructor.

```
from google.auth import compute_enginefrom google.cloud import firestoreclient = firestore.Client(    project="project-custom",    database="non-default-database",    credentials=compute_engine.Credentials(),)history = FirestoreChatMessageHistory(    session_id="session-id", collection="History", client=client)history.add_user_message("New message")history.messageshistory.clear()
```