title: How to import all firestore documents from an export to a specific collection
body: <p>So I want to be able to create a snapshot of the database as it is to create a &quot;development&quot; collection.</p>
  <p>I am able to export all the data currently on firestore using the tutorial here <a href="https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/manage-data/export-import#export_data" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/manage-data/export-import#export_data</a>.</p>
  <p>Firebase only shows how to import specific collections <strong>from</strong> that stored export.</p>
  <p>How can I import the export <strong>to</strong> a specific &quot;development&quot; collection within firestore?</p>
  <p>For example:</p>
  <p>Cloud Firestore Database Collections (day 1)</p>
  <ul>
  <li>Users (as of day 1)
  <ul>
  <li>Has a document for each user</li>
  </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Tasks (as of day 1)
  <ul>
  <li>Has a document for each task</li>
  </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Chats (as of day 1)
  <ul>
  <li>Has a document for each chat</li>
  </ul>
  </li>
  </ul>
  <p><strong>-&gt;</strong> export all this data to google cloud platform bucket
  <strong>-&gt;</strong> import all the exported data into a “development” collection</p>
  <p>Cloud Firestore Database Collections (day 2)</p>
  <ul>
  <li>Users (as of day 2)</li>
  <li>Tasks (as of day 2)</li>
  <li>Chats (as of day 2)</li>
  <li>Development
  <ul>
  <li>Users (as of day 1)</li>
  <li>Tasks (as of day 1)</li>
  <li>Chats (as of day 1)</li>
  </ul>
  </li>
  </ul>
  <p>I can then use this development collection as a database snapshot for testing, then the other collections can be used in production as normal.</p>