pandas.io.gbq.read_gbq

pandas.io.gbq.read_gbq(query, project_id=None, index_col=None, col_order=None, reauth=False)

Load data from Google BigQuery.

THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL LIBRARY

The main method a user calls to execute a Query in Google BigQuery and read results into a pandas DataFrame using the v2 Google API client for Python. Documentation for the API is available at https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/python/. Authentication to the Google BigQuery service is via OAuth 2.0 using the product name ‘pandas GBQ’.

Parameters :

query : str

SQL-Like Query to return data values

project_id : str

Google BigQuery Account project ID.

index_col : str (optional)

Name of result column to use for index in results DataFrame

col_order : list(str) (optional)

List of BigQuery column names in the desired order for results DataFrame

reauth : boolean (default False)

Force Google BigQuery to reauthenticate the user. This is useful if multiple accounts are used.

Returns :

df: DataFrame

DataFrame representing results of query