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Google Cloud BigQuery Transfer Operator to Google Cloud Storage

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Google Cloud BigQuery Transfer Operator to Google Cloud Storage

Google Cloud BigQuery <https://cloud.google.com/bigquery>__ is Google Cloud's serverless data warehouse offering. Google Cloud Storage (GCS) <https://cloud.google.com/storage/>__ is a managed service for storing unstructured data. This operator can be used to export data from BigQuery tables into files in a Cloud Storage bucket.

Prerequisite Tasks ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

.. include:: /operators/_partials/prerequisite_tasks.rst

.. _howto/operator:BigQueryToGCSOperator:

Operator ^^^^^^^^

Table export from BigQuery to GCS is performed with the :class:~airflow.providers.google.cloud.transfers.bigquery_to_gcs.BigQueryToGCSOperator operator.

Use :ref:Jinja templating <concepts:jinja-templating> with :template-fields:airflow.providers.google.cloud.transfers.bigquery_to_gcs.BigQueryToGCSOperator to define values dynamically.

You may define multiple destination URIs, as well as other settings such as compression and export_format. For more information, please refer to the links above.

Exporting tables

The following Operator exports BigQuery table into a GCS.

.. exampleinclude:: /../../google/tests/system/google/cloud/bigquery/example_bigquery_to_gcs.py :language: python :dedent: 4 :start-after: [START howto_operator_bigquery_to_gcs] :end-before: [END howto_operator_bigquery_to_gcs]

Reference ^^^^^^^^^

For further information, look at:

  • Google Cloud Storage Documentation <https://cloud.google.com/storage/>__
  • Google Cloud BigQuery Documentation <https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/exporting-data>__