Is there a way to export a BigQuery table's schema as JSON?

Question

A BigQuery table has schema which can be viewed in the web UI, updated, or used to load data with the bq tool as a JSON file. However, I can\'t find a way to du

Answer 1

You can add the flag --schema[1] in order to avoid table data information.

bq show --schema --format=prettyjson [PROJECT_ID]:[DATASET].[TABLE] > [SCHEMA_FILE]

bq show --schema --format=prettyjson mydataset.mytable > /tmp/myschema.json

[1] https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/managing-table-schemas