BigQuery API Client Libraries

This page shows how to get started with the Cloud Client Libraries for the BigQuery API. Client libraries make it easier to access Google Cloud APIs from a supported language. Although you can use Google Cloud APIs directly by making raw requests to the server, client libraries provide simplifications that significantly reduce the amount of code you need to write.

Read more about the Cloud Client Libraries and the older Google API Client Libraries in Client libraries explained.

Install the client library

C#

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

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

Go

go get cloud.google.com/go/bigquery

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

Java

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>26.43.0</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:26.45.0')

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" % "2.42.2"

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

• Cloud Code for VS Code
• Cloud Code for IntelliJ
• Cloud Tools for Eclipse

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

Note: Cloud Java client libraries do not currently support Android.

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

Node.js

npm install --save @google-cloud/bigquery

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

PHP

composer require google/cloud-bigquery

For more information, see Using PHP on Google Cloud.

Python

pip install --upgrade google-cloud-bigquery

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

Ruby

gem install google-cloud-bigquery

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

Set up authentication

To authenticate calls to Google Cloud APIs, client libraries support Application Default Credentials (ADC); the libraries look for credentials in a set of defined locations and use those credentials to authenticate requests to the API. With ADC, you can make credentials available to your application in a variety of environments, such as local development or production, without needing to modify your application code.

For production environments, the way you set up ADC depends on the service and context. For more information, see Set up Application Default Credentials.

For a local development environment, you can set up ADC with the credentials that are associated with your Google Account:

1. Install the Google Cloud CLI, then initialize it by running the following command:

   gcloud init

2. If you're using a local shell, then create local authentication credentials for your user account:

   gcloud auth application-default login

   You don't need to do this if you're using Cloud Shell.

   A sign-in screen appears. After you sign in, your credentials are stored in the local credential file used by ADC.

Use the client library

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

Note: JRuby is not supported.

C#

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

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

import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQuery;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryException;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryOptions;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.FieldValueList;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.Job;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.JobId;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.JobInfo;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.QueryJobConfiguration;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.TableResult;


public class SimpleApp {

  public static void main(String... args) throws Exception {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the app.
    String projectId = "MY_PROJECT_ID";
    simpleApp(projectId);
  }

  public static void simpleApp(String projectId) {
    try {
      BigQuery bigquery = BigQueryOptions.getDefaultInstance().getService();
      QueryJobConfiguration queryConfig =
          QueryJobConfiguration.newBuilder(
                  "SELECT CONCAT('https://stackoverflow.com/questions/', "
                      + "CAST(id as STRING)) as url, view_count "
                      + "FROM `bigquery-public-data.stackoverflow.posts_questions` "
                      + "WHERE tags like '%google-bigquery%' "
                      + "ORDER BY view_count DESC "
                      + "LIMIT 10")
              // Use standard SQL syntax for queries.
              // See: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/sql-reference/
              .setUseLegacySql(false)
              .build();

      JobId jobId = JobId.newBuilder().setProject(projectId).build();
      Job queryJob = bigquery.create(JobInfo.newBuilder(queryConfig).setJobId(jobId).build());

      // Wait for the query to complete.
      queryJob = queryJob.waitFor();

      // Check for errors
      if (queryJob == null) {
        throw new RuntimeException("Job no longer exists");
      } else if (queryJob.getStatus().getError() != null) {
        // You can also look at queryJob.getStatus().getExecutionErrors() for all
        // errors, not just the latest one.
        throw new RuntimeException(queryJob.getStatus().getError().toString());
      }

      // Get the results.
      TableResult result = queryJob.getQueryResults();

      // Print all pages of the results.
      for (FieldValueList row : result.iterateAll()) {
        // String type
        String url = row.get("url").getStringValue();
        String viewCount = row.get("view_count").getStringValue();
        System.out.printf("%s : %s views\n", url, viewCount);
      }
    } catch (BigQueryException | InterruptedException e) {
      System.out.println("Simple App failed due to error: \n" + e.toString());
    }
  }
}

Node.js

// 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

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

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
"""
rows = client.query_and_wait(query)  # Make an API request.

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

Ruby

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

C#

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for C#:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-bigquery on Stack Overflow
• Source code

Go

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for Go:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-bigquery on Stack Overflow
• Source code

Java

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for Java:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-bigquery on Stack Overflow
• Source code

Node.js

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for Node.js:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-bigquery on Stack Overflow
• Source code

PHP

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for PHP:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-bigquery on Stack Overflow
• Source code

Python

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for Python:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-bigquery on Stack Overflow
• Source code

Ruby

The following list contains links to more resources related to the client library for Ruby:

• API reference
• Client libraries best practices
• Issue tracker
• google-bigquery on Stack Overflow
• Source code

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 (usage guide), ibis (tutorial)
R	bigrquery, BigQueryR
Scala	spark-bigquery-connector

What's next?

• View available BigQuery code samples.
• Query a public dataset with the BigQuery API client libraries.
• Visualize BigQuery API public data using a Jupyter notebook.

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