Export a table to a CSV file

Exports a table to a CSV file in a Cloud Storage bucket.

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For detailed documentation that includes this code sample, see the following:

• Export table data to Cloud Storage

Code sample

C#

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

To authenticate to BigQuery, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

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

public class BigQueryExtractTable
{
    public void ExtractTable(
        string projectId = "your-project-id",
        string bucketName = "your-bucket-name")
    {
        BigQueryClient client = BigQueryClient.Create(projectId);
        // Define a destination URI. Use a single wildcard URI if you think
        // your exported data will be larger than the 1 GB maximum value.
        string destinationUri = $"gs://{bucketName}/shakespeare-*.csv";
        BigQueryJob job = client.CreateExtractJob(
            projectId: "bigquery-public-data",
            datasetId: "samples",
            tableId: "shakespeare",
            destinationUri: destinationUri
        );
        job = job.PollUntilCompleted().ThrowOnAnyError();  // Waits for the job to complete.
        Console.Write($"Exported table to {destinationUri}.");
    }
}

Go

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

To authenticate to BigQuery, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"

	"cloud.google.com/go/bigquery"
)

// exportTableAsCompressedCSV demonstrates using an export job to
// write the contents of a table into Cloud Storage as CSV.
func exportTableAsCSV(projectID, gcsURI string) error {
	// projectID := "my-project-id"
	// gcsURI := "gs://mybucket/shakespeare.csv"
	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := bigquery.NewClient(ctx, projectID)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("bigquery.NewClient: %w", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	srcProject := "bigquery-public-data"
	srcDataset := "samples"
	srcTable := "shakespeare"

	gcsRef := bigquery.NewGCSReference(gcsURI)
	gcsRef.FieldDelimiter = ","

	extractor := client.DatasetInProject(srcProject, srcDataset).Table(srcTable).ExtractorTo(gcsRef)
	extractor.DisableHeader = true
	// You can choose to run the job in a specific location for more complex data locality scenarios.
	// Ex: In this example, source dataset and GCS bucket are in the US.
	extractor.Location = "US"

	job, err := extractor.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
	}
	return nil
}

Java

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

To authenticate to BigQuery, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

import com.google.cloud.RetryOption;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQuery;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryException;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryOptions;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.Job;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.Table;
import com.google.cloud.bigquery.TableId;
import org.threeten.bp.Duration;

public class ExtractTableToCsv {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    String projectId = "bigquery-public-data";
    String datasetName = "samples";
    String tableName = "shakespeare";
    String bucketName = "my-bucket";
    String destinationUri = "gs://" + bucketName + "/path/to/file";
    // For more information on export formats available see:
    // https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/exporting-data#export_formats_and_compression_types
    // For more information on Job see:
    // https://googleapis.dev/java/google-cloud-clients/latest/index.html?com/google/cloud/bigquery/package-summary.html

    String dataFormat = "CSV";
    extractTableToCsv(projectId, datasetName, tableName, destinationUri, dataFormat);
  }

  // Exports datasetName:tableName to destinationUri as raw CSV
  public static void extractTableToCsv(
      String projectId,
      String datasetName,
      String tableName,
      String destinationUri,
      String dataFormat) {
    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();

      TableId tableId = TableId.of(projectId, datasetName, tableName);
      Table table = bigquery.getTable(tableId);

      Job job = table.extract(dataFormat, destinationUri);

      // Blocks until this job completes its execution, either failing or succeeding.
      Job completedJob =
          job.waitFor(
              RetryOption.initialRetryDelay(Duration.ofSeconds(1)),
              RetryOption.totalTimeout(Duration.ofMinutes(3)));
      if (completedJob == null) {
        System.out.println("Job not executed since it no longer exists.");
        return;
      } else if (completedJob.getStatus().getError() != null) {
        System.out.println(
            "BigQuery was unable to extract due to an error: \n" + job.getStatus().getError());
        return;
      }
      System.out.println(
          "Table export successful. Check in GCS bucket for the " + dataFormat + " file.");
    } catch (BigQueryException | InterruptedException e) {
      System.out.println("Table extraction job was interrupted. \n" + e.toString());
    }
  }
}

PHP

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

To authenticate to BigQuery, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

use Google\Cloud\BigQuery\BigQueryClient;

/**
 * Extracts the given table as json to given GCS bucket.
 *
 * @param string $projectId The project Id of your Google Cloud Project.
 * @param string $datasetId The BigQuery dataset ID.
 * @param string $tableId The BigQuery table ID.
 * @param string $bucketName Bucket name in Google Cloud Storage
 */
function extract_table(
    string $projectId,
    string $datasetId,
    string $tableId,
    string $bucketName
): void {
    $bigQuery = new BigQueryClient([
      'projectId' => $projectId,
    ]);
    $dataset = $bigQuery->dataset($datasetId);
    $table = $dataset->table($tableId);
    $destinationUri = "gs://{$bucketName}/{$tableId}.json";
    // Define the format to use. If the format is not specified, 'CSV' will be used.
    $format = 'NEWLINE_DELIMITED_JSON';
    // Create the extract job
    $extractConfig = $table->extract($destinationUri)->destinationFormat($format);
    // Run the job
    $job = $table->runJob($extractConfig);  // Waits for the job to complete
    printf('Exported %s to %s' . PHP_EOL, $table->id(), $destinationUri);
}

Python

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

To authenticate to BigQuery, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

# from google.cloud import bigquery
# client = bigquery.Client()
# bucket_name = 'my-bucket'
project = "bigquery-public-data"
dataset_id = "samples"
table_id = "shakespeare"

destination_uri = "gs://{}/{}".format(bucket_name, "shakespeare.csv")
dataset_ref = bigquery.DatasetReference(project, dataset_id)
table_ref = dataset_ref.table(table_id)

extract_job = client.extract_table(
    table_ref,
    destination_uri,
    # Location must match that of the source table.
    location="US",
)  # API request
extract_job.result()  # Waits for job to complete.

print(
    "Exported {}:{}.{} to {}".format(project, dataset_id, table_id, destination_uri)
)

Ruby

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

To authenticate to BigQuery, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for client libraries.

require "google/cloud/bigquery"

def extract_table bucket_name = "my-bucket",
                  dataset_id  = "my_dataset_id",
                  table_id    = "my_table_id"
  bigquery = Google::Cloud::Bigquery.new
  dataset  = bigquery.dataset dataset_id
  table    = dataset.table    table_id

  # Define a destination URI. Use a single wildcard URI if you think
  # your exported data will be larger than the 1 GB maximum value.
  destination_uri = "gs://#{bucket_name}/output-*.csv"

  extract_job = table.extract_job destination_uri do |config|
    # Location must match that of the source table.
    config.location = "US"
  end
  extract_job.wait_until_done! # Waits for the job to complete

  puts "Exported #{table.id} to #{destination_uri}"
end

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