Run a saved bigquery query from Google Apps Script?

Question

We frequently use Google Apps script to run BigQuery queries and put them into a Google Sheet. However, the workflow is annoying:

1. Run the query in BigQuery until y

Answer 1

BigQuery Team definitely has some secret sauce here as they actually have this functionality in their Native BigQuery UI – you can save and then reuse it from within that UI

As of using saved query programmatically I can recommend this route:

1. run your query anyhow and get respective jobid
2. do jobs/get (https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/v2/jobs/get) for that specific jobid within your script to get configuration.query.query that consists of query text
3. then just use it the way you need
4. if to properly wrap it – can be quite useful :0)