We Kinda Bypassed Firebase's Paywall: Here's How

The value of good analytics at this stage of a product’s lifecycle can not be overstated. To monitor its health and growth, we decided to use Firebase Analytics. We had approached the point of diminishing returns when it came to using the analytics dashboards to inform our enhancements. Our experiments needed access to more data. We would build a small automation tool to loop through our dashboards, collecting all the data that we wanted — a web scraping solution. We used Selenium for this purpose a browser automation tool.