All Cloud Functions code samples

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Avoid infinite retries

Discards all events older than 10 seconds.

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• Retrying Event-Driven Functions

Cached library

HTTP Cloud Function that uses a cached client library instance to reduce the number of connections required per function invocation.

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• Optimizing Networking

Cloud Storage Hello World

Shows a Storage Cloud Function sample.

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• Background Functions
• Cloud Storage Tutorial
• CloudEvent Functions
• Google Cloud Storage Triggers
• Testing Background Functions
• Testing Event-Driven Functions

Cloud Storage integration tests

Demonstrates how to integration test a function triggered by Cloud Storage.

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• Testing Background Functions
• Testing Event-Driven Functions

Cloud Storage system tests

Demonstrates how to system test a function triggered by Cloud Storage.

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• Testing Background Functions
• Testing Event-Driven Functions

Cloud Storage unit tests

Demonstrates how to unit test a function triggered by Cloud Storage.

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• Testing Background Functions
• Testing Event-Driven Functions

Environment variables

Demonstrates how to use environment variables within a Cloud Function.

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• Using Environment Variables

Execution after HTTP response

Example of code that won't execute after an HTTP response is sent.

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• Cloud Functions Execution Environment

Execution after timeout

Sample that demonstrates code that should (but won't) execute after a GCF call times out.

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• Cloud Functions Execution Environment

File system

Shows how to access a Cloud Functions instance's file system.

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• Cloud Functions Execution Environment

Firebase Analytics

Triggers a function when a Firebase Analytics event is received.

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• Google Analytics for Firebase Triggers

Firebase Auth

Triggers a function when a Firebase Auth user object changes.

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• Firebase Authentication Triggers

Firebase remote config

Process changes to Firebase remote config values.

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• Firebase Remote Config Triggers

Firebase RTDB trigger

Triggers a function when a Firebase realtime database is updated.

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• Firebase Realtime Database Triggers

Firestore trigger

Triggers a function in response to a Firestore database update.

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• Google Cloud Firestore Triggers

Global versus function scope

Creates a heavy object only once per function instance, and shares it across all function invocations reaching the given instance.

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• Cloud Functions Execution Environment
• Tips & Tricks

Hello World error

Demonstrates how to report an error.

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• Reporting Errors

HTTP Auth with CORS

HTTP function that supports CORS requests with credentials.

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HTTP Bearer token

Shows how to make Google Cloud-authenticated HTTP requests.

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• Authenticating for invocation

HTTP CORS

Shows how to make CORS-enabled requests with Cloud Functions.

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• HTTP Functions

HTTP Hello World

HTTP function responds with "Hello, world!"

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• HTTP Functions
• HTTP Triggers
• Specifying dependencies in Node.js
• Testing HTTP Functions
• Tips & Tricks
• Writing Cloud Functions
• Your First Function: Go
• Your First Function: Node.js
• Your First Function: PHP
• Your First Function: Python
• Your First Function: Ruby

HTTP Hello World - Get

Function that prints "Hello world!" in response to a GET request.

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• .NET Languages
• HTTP Tutorial
• JVM Languages
• Quickstart: Using the gcloud Command-Line Tool
• Your First Function: .NET
• Your First Function: Java

HTTP integration tests

Demonstrates how to integration test an HTTP function.

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• Testing HTTP Functions

HTTP method types

Shows how to handle HTTP method types (such as GET, PUT, and POST) in Cloud Functions.

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• HTTP Functions

HTTP parse multipart/form-data

Cloud Function that parses HTTP form requests.

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• HTTP Functions

HTTP request body

Parses a request body.

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• HTTP Functions

HTTP system tests

Demonstrates how to system test an HTTP function.

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• Testing HTTP Functions

HTTP unit tests

Demonstrates how to unit test an HTTP function.

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• Testing HTTP Functions

HTTP XML

Parses an HTTP request that contains "application/xml" content.

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• HTTP Functions

ImageMagick tutorial step 1 - Analyze image

Demonstrates how to use the Google Cloud Vision API and ImageMagick to detect and blur offensive images that get uploaded to a Cloud Storage bucket.

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• ImageMagick Tutorial

ImageMagick tutorial step 2 - Blur image

Demonstrates how to use the Google Cloud Vision API and ImageMagick to detect and blur offensive images that get uploaded to a Cloud Storage bucket.

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• ImageMagick Tutorial

Lazy globals

Demonstrates waiting to initialize global variables until they're used.

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• Tips & Tricks

Memorystore for Redis

Demonstrates a Cloud Function that connects to a managed Redis instance.

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OCR tutorial step 1 - Process image

Demonstrates how to upload image files to Cloud Storage, and extract and translate text from the images by using the Vision API and Translation API.

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• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Tutorial

OCR tutorial step 2 - Detect text

Demonstrates how to upload image files to Cloud Storage, and extract and translate text from the images by using the Vision API and Translation API.

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• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Tutorial

OCR tutorial step 3 - Translate text

Demonstrates how to upload image files to Cloud Storage, and extract and translate text from the images by using the Vision API and Translation API.

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• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Tutorial

OCR tutorial step 4 - Save result

Demonstrates how to upload image files to Cloud Storage, and extract and translate text from the images by using the Vision API and Translation API.

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• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Tutorial

PHP Info

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• The PHP Runtime

Pub/Sub Hello World

Shows a Pub/Sub Cloud Function sample.

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• .NET Languages
• Background Functions
• Calling Cloud Functions Directly
• Cloud Pub/Sub Tutorial
• CloudEvent Functions
• Google Cloud Pub/Sub Triggers
• JVM Languages
• Testing Background Functions
• Testing Event-Driven Functions
• Writing Cloud Functions

Pub/Sub integration tests

Demonstrates how to integration test a function triggered by Pub/Sub.

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• Testing Background Functions
• Testing Event-Driven Functions

Pub/Sub parse message

Demonstrates how to interact with Pub/Sub from Cloud Functions.

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• Google Cloud Pub/Sub Triggers

Pub/Sub publish message

Demonstrates how to interact with Pub/Sub from Cloud Functions.

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• Google Cloud Pub/Sub Triggers

Pub/Sub system tests

Demonstrates how to system test a function triggered by Pub/Sub.

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• Testing Background Functions
• Testing Event-Driven Functions

Pub/Sub unit tests

Demonstrates how to unit test a function triggered by Pub/Sub.

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• Testing Background Functions
• Testing Event-Driven Functions

React to value change by updating a value

Updates a value whenever it is changed in Firestore.

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• Google Cloud Firestore Triggers

Retry on error

Tells your function whether or not to retry execution when an error happens.

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• Retrying Event-Driven Functions

Send HTTP requests

Shows how to make an HTTP request from a Cloud Function.

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• Cloud Functions Execution Environment

Statelessness

An example of what variable state function instances do (and don't) store.

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• Cloud Functions Execution Environment

Trigger function from Cloud Logging

Triggers a function based on Cloud Logging entries.

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• Second-Party Triggers with Cloud Logging

Use HTTP connection pooling

Shows how to recycle HTTP connections using HTTP connection pools.

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• Optimizing Networking

Write logs

Writes a Cloud Functions log entry.

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• Writing, Viewing, and Responding to Logs