Write into Google BigQuery

Description

This GitHub Action can be used to write data to Google BigQuery from within a GitHub workflow. The GitHub Action authenticates with a Google Cloud Service Account and uses the provided token for writing to BigQuery. It sends a POST request against the insertAll API endpoint.

Usage

Note: this action requires actions/checkout to be run first

- name: Checkout
  uses: actions/checkout@v4

- name: Collect data
  run: |
    echo "TIMESTAMP=$(date --utc +%FT%T%Z)" >> $GITHUB_ENV

- name: Write to DWH
  uses: Staffbase/bigquery-github-action@v1.1.0
  with:
    credentials_json: ${{ secrets.YOUR_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_KEY }}
    bigquery_project: bq-your-project-id
    bigquery_dataset: bq-your-dataset-id
    bigquery_table: bq-your-table-id
    payload_json: '{ "property": "${{ env.TIMESTAMP }} this is a test"}'

Action Spec:

Inputs

Input	Description	Required
credentials_json	The credentials key for the Service Account user used for authentication in JSON format. This is forwarded to the google-github-actions/auth action.	true
token_lifetime	The lifetime of the generated auth token in seconds. The default is 30s. This is forwarded to the google-github-actions/auth action.	false
bigquery_project	The Project ID of the project to write to.	true
bigquery_dataset	The Dataset ID inside the project to write to.	true
bigquery_table	The Table ID inside the dataset to write to.	true
payload_json	The payload to be written into the referenced table in JSON format. It must reflect the schema of the table. In the above example the property refers to the column name in the table bigquery_table and ${{ env.TIMESTAMP }} this is a test is the value written into that column.	true
timestamp_property_to_add	A column name in the bigquery_table which is of type TIMESTAMP. If provided the a property with this name and the current timestamp as value (in UTC) is added to payload_json.	false

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache-2.0 License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.

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