# How to get a very long list from firebase and sort it

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**Created:** [February 6, 2021, 12:40pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-get-a-very-long-list-from-firebase-and-sort-it/1084780 "2021-02-06T12:40:08Z")\
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Simply set an App variable to the Firebase node you are interested in searching. It is surprisingly fast. Then you can searh/sort using the app variable. I’ve pulled Firebase JSON trees with over 30,000 nodes without any problems.

To sort a JSON list, check out [More JSON - Sort Object List by Object Property](https://community.thunkable.com/t/more-json-sort-object-list-by-object-property/904479).

I believe @muneer also has a search/sort solution.

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