How can I create a new view in bigquery using the python API?

Question

I have some code that automatically generates a bunch of different SQL queries that I would like to insert into the bigquery to generate views, though one of the issues that

Answer 1

Everything that web UI or the bq tool does is made through the BigQuery API, so don't give up yet :).

Creating a view is akin to creating a table, just be sure to have a table resource that contains a view property when you call tables.insert().

• https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/querying-data#views
• https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/v2/tables#resource