Firestore: How to Get Random Documents in a Collection

Question

It is imperative that my application is able to select multiple random events from a collection in firebase.

Since there is no built-in function in Firebase (what I know) to achieve a query that does just that, my first thought was to use query cursors to select a random start and end index, provided that I have the number of documents in collection.

This approach will work, but only in a limited way, since each document will be serviced sequentially with its neighboring documents each time; however, if I could select a document by its index in my parent collection, I could get a random request for the document, but the problem is that I cannot find the documentation describing how you can do this, or even if you can to do.

Here, what I would like to do is consider the following firestore scheme:

root/
  posts/
     docA
     docB
     docC
     docD

Then in my client (I'm in a Swift environment) I would like to write a query that can do this:

db.collection("posts")[0, 1, 3] // would return: docA, docB, docD

Anyway, can I do something in accordance with this? Or is there another way to select random documents in a similar way?

Please, help.

Answer 1

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var quotes = db.collection("quotes");

var key = quotes.doc().id;

quotes.where(admin.firestore.FieldPath.documentId(), '>=', key).limit(1).get()
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    if(snapshot.size > 0) {
        snapshot.forEach(doc => {
            console.log(doc.id, '=>', doc.data());
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import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { Observable, merge, pipe } from 'rxjs';
import { map, switchMap, filter, take } from 'rxjs/operators';
import { AngularFirestore, QuerySnapshot } from '@angular/fire/firestore';

@Component({
  selector: 'pp-random',
  templateUrl: './random.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./random.component.scss']
})
export class RandomComponent implements OnInit {

  constructor(
    public afs: AngularFirestore,
  ) { }

  ngOnInit() {
  }

  public buttonClicked(): void {
    this.getRandom().pipe(take(1)).subscribe();
  }

  public getRandom(): Observable<any[]> {
    const randomNumber = this.getRandomNumber();
    const request$ = this.afs.collection('your-collection', ref => ref.where('random', '>=', randomNumber).orderBy('random').limit(1)).get();
    const retryRequest$ = this.afs.collection('your-collection', ref => ref.where('random', '<=', randomNumber).orderBy('random', 'desc').limit(1)).get();

    const docMap = pipe(
      map((docs: QuerySnapshot<any>) => {
        return docs.docs.map(e => {
          return {
            id: e.id,
            ...e.data()
          } as any;
        });
      })
    );

    const random$ = request$.pipe(docMap).pipe(filter(x => x !== undefined && x[0] !== undefined));

    const retry$ = request$.pipe(docMap).pipe(
      filter(x => x === undefined || x[0] === undefined),
      switchMap(() => retryRequest$),
      docMap
    );

    return merge(random$, retry$);
  }

  public getRandomNumber(): number {
    const min = Math.ceil(Number.MIN_VALUE);
    const max = Math.ceil(Number.MAX_VALUE);
    return Math.floor(Math.random() * (max - min + 1)) + min;
  }
}

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  getDocumentRandomlyParent(): Observable<any> {
    return this.getDocumentRandomlyChild()
      .pipe(
        expand((document: any) => document === null ? this.getDocumentRandomlyChild() : EMPTY),
      );
  }

  getDocumentRandomlyChild(): Observable<any> {
      const random = this.afs.createId();
      return this.afs
        .collection('my_collection', ref =>
          ref
            .where('random_identifier', '>', random)
            .limit(1))
        .valueChanges()
        .pipe(
          map((documentArray: any[]) => {
            if (documentArray && documentArray.length) {
              return documentArray[0];
            } else {
              return null;
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