# How to create plant recognition with using firebase?

**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-create-plant-recognition-with-using-firebase/1301770
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Tags:** firebase, beginner, help
**Created:** [May 23, 2021, 10:42am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-create-plant-recognition-with-using-firebase/1301770 "2021-05-23T10:42:45Z")
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#### Post date: [May 23, 2021, 4:43pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-create-plant-recognition-with-using-firebase/1301770/5 "2021-05-23T16:43:23Z")

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If you want to allow the user to identify a plant based on a photo they take, you’re going to need to find an API that does that and figure out to use it.

Start by Googling _plant recognition api_

If you need help understanding how to use an API in Thunkable, see my tutorial:

> [@API JSON Tutorial (Video)](https://community.thunkable.com/t/api-json-tutorial-video/1140575):
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> Using APIs in Thunkable and understanding how to parse JSON to get certain data from the API response is both a popular and a difficult aspect of using Thunkable. It’s not so much difficult because of Thunkable but because every API url format is different, every API documentation is different, every JSON response is different, etc. In this video, I spend a lot of time talking you through some best practices. It’s not a quick tutorial because if you rush through setting up an API in Thunkable, …

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