BigQuery API Client Libraries

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This page shows how to get started with the Cloud Client Libraries for the BigQuery API. Read more about the client libraries for Cloud APIs, including the older Google API Client Libraries, in Client Libraries Explained.

Install the client library

C#

For more information, see Setting Up a C# Development Environment.

Install-Package Google.Cloud.BigQuery.V2 -Pre

Go

For more information, see Setting Up a Go Development Environment.

go get cloud.google.com/go/bigquery

Java

For more information, see Setting Up a Java Development Environment.

If you are using Maven, add the following to your pom.xml file. For more information about BOMs, see The Google Cloud Platform Libraries BOM.

<!--  Using libraries-bom to manage versions.
See https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-opensource-java/wiki/The-Google-Cloud-Platform-Libraries-BOM -->
<dependencyManagement>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
      <artifactId>libraries-bom</artifactId>
      <version>26.10.0</version>
      <type>pom</type>
      <scope>import</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
    <artifactId>google-cloud-bigquery</artifactId>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

If you are using Gradle, add the following to your dependencies:

implementation platform('com.google.cloud:libraries-bom:26.10.0')

implementation 'com.google.cloud:google-cloud-bigquery'

If you are using sbt, add the following to your dependencies:

libraryDependencies += "com.google.cloud" % "google-cloud-bigquery" % "2.24.1"

If you're using Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ, or Eclipse, you can add client libraries to your project using the following IDE plugins:

The plugins provide additional functionality, such as key management for service accounts. Refer to each plugin's documentation for details.

Node.js

For more information, see Setting Up a Node.js Development Environment.

npm install --save @google-cloud/bigquery

PHP

For more information, see Using PHP on Google Cloud.

composer require google/cloud-bigquery

Python

For more information, see Setting Up a Python Development Environment.

pip install --upgrade google-cloud-bigquery

Ruby

For more information, see Setting Up a Ruby Development Environment.

gem install google-cloud-bigquery

Set up authentication

When you use client libraries, you use Application Default Credentials (ADC) to authenticate. For information about setting up ADC, see Provide credentials for Application Default Credentials. For information about using ADC with client libraries, see Authenticate using client libraries.

Use the client library

The following example shows how to initialize a client and perform a query on a BigQuery API public dataset.

C#

Before trying this sample, follow the C# setup instructions in the BigQuery API quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery API C# API reference documentation. 


using Google.Cloud.BigQuery.V2;
using System;

public class BigQueryQuery
{
    public void Query(
        string projectId = "your-project-id"
    )
    {
        BigQueryClient client = BigQueryClient.Create(projectId);
        string query = @"
            SELECT name FROM `bigquery-public-data.usa_names.usa_1910_2013`
            WHERE state = 'TX'
            LIMIT 100";
        BigQueryJob job = client.CreateQueryJob(
            sql: query,
            parameters: null,
            options: new QueryOptions { UseQueryCache = false });
        // Wait for the job to complete.
        job = job.PollUntilCompleted().ThrowOnAnyError();
        // Display the results
        foreach (BigQueryRow row in client.GetQueryResults(job.Reference))
        {
            Console.WriteLine($"{row["name"]}");
        }
    }
}

Go

Before trying this sample, follow the Go setup instructions in the BigQuery API quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery API Go API reference documentation. 

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

	"cloud.google.com/go/bigquery"
	"google.golang.org/api/iterator"
)

// queryBasic demonstrates issuing a query and reading results.
func queryBasic(w io.Writer, projectID string) error {
	// projectID := "my-project-id"
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := bigquery.NewClient(ctx, projectID)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("bigquery.NewClient: %v", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	q := client.Query(
		"SELECT name FROM `bigquery-public-data.usa_names.usa_1910_2013` " +
			"WHERE state = \"TX\" " +
			"LIMIT 100")
	// Location must match that of the dataset(s) referenced in the query.
	q.Location = "US"
	// Run the query and print results when the query job is completed.
	job, err := q.Run(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	status, err := job.Wait(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	if err := status.Err(); err != nil {
		return err
	}
	it, err := job.Read(ctx)
	for {
		var row []bigquery.Value
		err := it.Next(&row)
		if err == iterator.Done {
			break
		}
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
		fmt.Fprintln(w, row)
	}
	return nil
}

Java

Before trying this sample, follow the Java setup instructions in the BigQuery API quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery API Java API reference documentation. 

import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQuery;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryException;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryOptions;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.QueryJobConfiguration;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.TableResult;

// Sample to query in a table
public class Query {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    String projectId = "MY_PROJECT_ID";
    String datasetName = "MY_DATASET_NAME";
    String tableName = "MY_TABLE_NAME";
    String query =
        "SELECT name, SUM(number) as total_people\n"
            + " FROM `"
            + projectId
            + "."
            + datasetName
            + "."
            + tableName
            + "`"
            + " WHERE state = 'TX'"
            + " GROUP BY name, state"
            + " ORDER BY total_people DESC"
            + " LIMIT 20";
    query(query);
  }

  public static void query(String query) {
    try {
      // Initialize client that will be used to send requests. This client only needs to be created
      // once, and can be reused for multiple requests.
      BigQuery bigquery = BigQueryOptions.getDefaultInstance().getService();

      QueryJobConfiguration queryConfig = QueryJobConfiguration.newBuilder(query).build();

      TableResult results = bigquery.query(queryConfig);

      results
          .iterateAll()
          .forEach(row -> row.forEach(val -> System.out.printf("%s,", val.toString())));

      System.out.println("Query performed successfully.");
    } catch (BigQueryException | InterruptedException e) {
      System.out.println("Query not performed \n" + e.toString());
    }
  }
}

Node.js

Before trying this sample, follow the Node.js setup instructions in the BigQuery API quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery API Node.js API reference documentation. 

// Import the Google Cloud client library using default credentials
const {BigQuery} = require('@google-cloud/bigquery');
const bigquery = new BigQuery();
async function query() {
  // Queries the U.S. given names dataset for the state of Texas.

  const query = `SELECT name
    FROM \`bigquery-public-data.usa_names.usa_1910_2013\`
    WHERE state = 'TX'
    LIMIT 100`;

  // For all options, see https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/rest/v2/jobs/query
  const options = {
    query: query,
    // Location must match that of the dataset(s) referenced in the query.
    location: 'US',
  };

  // Run the query as a job
  const [job] = await bigquery.createQueryJob(options);
  console.log(`Job ${job.id} started.`);

  // Wait for the query to finish
  const [rows] = await job.getQueryResults();

  // Print the results
  console.log('Rows:');
  rows.forEach(row => console.log(row));
}

PHP

Before trying this sample, follow the PHP setup instructions in the BigQuery API quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery API PHP API reference documentation. 

use Google\Cloud\BigQuery\BigQueryClient;
use Google\Cloud\Core\ExponentialBackoff;

/** Uncomment and populate these variables in your code */
// $projectId = 'The Google project ID';
// $query = 'SELECT id, view_count FROM `bigquery-public-data.stackoverflow.posts_questions`';

$bigQuery = new BigQueryClient([
    'projectId' => $projectId,
]);
$jobConfig = $bigQuery->query($query);
$job = $bigQuery->startQuery($jobConfig);

$backoff = new ExponentialBackoff(10);
$backoff->execute(function () use ($job) {
    print('Waiting for job to complete' . PHP_EOL);
    $job->reload();
    if (!$job->isComplete()) {
        throw new Exception('Job has not yet completed', 500);
    }
});
$queryResults = $job->queryResults();

$i = 0;
foreach ($queryResults as $row) {
    printf('--- Row %s ---' . PHP_EOL, ++$i);
    foreach ($row as $column => $value) {
        printf('%s: %s' . PHP_EOL, $column, json_encode($value));
    }
}
printf('Found %s row(s)' . PHP_EOL, $i);

Python

Before trying this sample, follow the Python setup instructions in the BigQuery API quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery API Python API reference documentation. 


from google.cloud import bigquery

# Construct a BigQuery client object.
client = bigquery.Client()

query = """
    SELECT name, SUM(number) as total_people
    FROM `bigquery-public-data.usa_names.usa_1910_2013`
    WHERE state = 'TX'
    GROUP BY name, state
    ORDER BY total_people DESC
    LIMIT 20
"""
query_job = client.query(query)  # Make an API request.

print("The query data:")
for row in query_job:
    # Row values can be accessed by field name or index.
    print("name={}, count={}".format(row[0], row["total_people"]))

Ruby

Before trying this sample, follow the Ruby setup instructions in the BigQuery API quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery API Ruby API reference documentation. 

require "google/cloud/bigquery"

def query
  bigquery = Google::Cloud::Bigquery.new
  sql = "SELECT name FROM `bigquery-public-data.usa_names.usa_1910_2013` " \
        "WHERE state = 'TX' " \
        "LIMIT 100"

  # Location must match that of the dataset(s) referenced in the query.
  results = bigquery.query sql do |config|
    config.location = "US"
  end

  results.each do |row|
    puts row.inspect
  end
end

Additional resources

Third-party BigQuery API client libraries

In addition to the Google-supported client libraries listed in the tables above, a set of third-party libraries are available.

Language Library
Python pandas-gbq (migration guide)
R bigrquery, BigQueryR
Scala spark-bigquery-connector

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