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 use REST API call to get BigQuery table schema as JSON. Documentation link: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/rest/v2/tables/get

curl 'https://bigquery.googleapis.com/bigquery/v2/projects/project-name/datasets/dataset-name/tables/table-name' \
     --header 'Authorization: Bearer [YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN]' \
     --header 'Accept: application/json' \
     --compressed