BigQuery Connection API: Manage BigQuery connections to external data sources.

• Client Library Documentation

• Product Documentation

• Introduction to BigQuery external data sources

Quick Start

In order to use this library, you first need to go through the following steps:

1. Select or create a Cloud Platform project.

2. Enable billing for your project.

3. Enable the BigQuery Connection API.

4. Setup Authentication.

Installation

Install this library in avirtualenv using pip.virtualenv is a tool tocreate isolated Python environments. The basic problem it addresses is one ofdependencies and versions, and indirectly permissions.

Withvirtualenv, it’s possible to install this library without needing systeminstall permissions, and without clashing with the installed systemdependencies.

Mac/Linux

pip install virtualenvvirtualenv <your-env>source <your-env>/bin/activate<your-env>/bin/pip install google-cloud-bigquery-connection

Windows

pip install virtualenvvirtualenv <your-env><your-env>\Scripts\activate<your-env>\Scripts\pip.exe install google-cloud-bigquery-connection

Next Steps

• Read theClient Library Documentation for BigQuery ConnectionAPI to see other available methods on the client.

• Read theBigQuery Connection API Product documentation to learnmore about the product and see How-to Guides.

• View thisrepository’s main README to see the full list of CloudAPIs that we cover.