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   "fact": "homepage",
   "note": "Google presents BigQuery as its autonomous data-to-AI warehouse platform on Google Cloud, with a free monthly usage allowance and paid models.",
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  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "license",
   "note": "The homepage offers 10 GiB storage and 1 TiB queries free per month plus $300 new-customer credits. BigQuery remains a billed Google Cloud commercial product.",
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   "note": "Google documents the BigQuery API service at bigquery.googleapis.com with REST resources under /bigquery/v2/.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/rest",
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  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
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   "note": "The documented interface is HTTP REST to https://bigquery.googleapis.com for datasets, jobs, models, projects, routines, row-access policies, tabledata, and tables.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/rest",
   "tier": "declared"
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  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "modalities.api.auth[0]",
   "note": "REST callers authenticate with a Bearer access token from gcloud auth print-access-token or Application Default Credentials. MCP documentation separately states OAuth 2.0 with IAM.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/authentication",
   "tier": "declared"
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  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "modalities.api.auth[1]",
   "note": "Google documents service-account credentials for workloads on Google Cloud: attach a service account to the compute resource and let client libraries use Application Default Credentials.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/authentication",
   "tier": "declared"
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  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "modalities.api.coverage",
   "note": "REST v2 covers dataset, table, job, query, streaming insert, model, routine, and row-access-policy administration. This is the warehouse API, not every Google Cloud console feature.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/rest",
   "tier": "declared"
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  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "modalities.sdk.exists",
   "note": "Google documents official Cloud Client Libraries for the BigQuery API and shows install commands plus query samples for each listed language.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/libraries",
   "tier": "declared"
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  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "modalities.sdk.languages[0]",
   "note": "Google lists Install-Package Google.Cloud.BigQuery.V2 for C#.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/libraries",
   "tier": "declared"
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   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "modalities.sdk.languages[1]",
   "note": "Google lists go get cloud.google.com/go/bigquery.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/libraries",
   "tier": "declared"
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  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "modalities.sdk.languages[2]",
   "note": "Google lists google-cloud-bigquery for Java via Maven, Gradle, and sbt.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/libraries",
   "tier": "declared"
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  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "modalities.sdk.languages[3]",
   "note": "Google lists npm install @google-cloud/bigquery for Node.js.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/libraries",
   "tier": "declared"
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  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "modalities.sdk.languages[4]",
   "note": "Google lists composer require google/cloud-bigquery for PHP.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/libraries",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "modalities.sdk.languages[5]",
   "note": "Google lists pip install google-cloud-bigquery for Python.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/libraries",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "modalities.sdk.languages[6]",
   "note": "Google lists gem install google-cloud-bigquery for Ruby.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/libraries",
   "tier": "declared"
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  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "modalities.mcp.first_party",
   "note": "Google Cloud documents a first-party BigQuery remote MCP server enabled with the BigQuery API. The endpoint is https://bigquery.googleapis.com/mcp. Authentication is OAuth 2.0 with IAM.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/use-bigquery-mcp",
   "tier": "declared"
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  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "modalities.integrations.zapier",
   "note": "Zapier documents a Google BigQuery app with query-job and row triggers plus create, update, delete, import, and run-query actions.",
   "source": "https://zapier.com/apps/google-bigquery/integrations",
   "tier": "scraped"
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  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "modalities.integrations.make",
   "note": "Make documents a BigQuery app that can monitor tables and completed query jobs and manage datasets, tables, table data, and query jobs, including Run a Query.",
   "source": "https://apps.make.com/google-bigquery",
   "tier": "scraped"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "modalities.integrations.power_automate",
   "note": "Microsoft lists Google BigQuery - Dev (Independent Publisher) (Preview) for Power Automate with a Get Data action. Publisher is Ashwani Kumar, not Microsoft.",
   "source": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/googlebigqueryip/",
   "tier": "scraped"
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  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
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   "note": "n8n documents a built-in Google BigQuery node with Execute Query and Insert operations.",
   "source": "https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/builtin/app-nodes/n8n-nodes-base.googlebigquery/",
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  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
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   "note": "Google documents bq as the official Python-based command-line tool for BigQuery, used from Cloud Shell or a local Google Cloud CLI install.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/bq-cli-reference",
   "tier": "declared"
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  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "modalities.extensibility.scripting[0]",
   "note": "jobs.query runs BigQuery SQL synchronously. The MCP and bq surfaces also execute SQL.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/rest",
   "tier": "declared"
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  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.export[0]",
   "note": "BigQuery extract jobs and EXPORT DATA support CSV export to Cloud Storage.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/exporting-data",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.export[1]",
   "note": "Extract jobs and EXPORT DATA support JSON (newline-delimited) export to Cloud Storage.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/exporting-data",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.export[2]",
   "note": "Extract jobs support Avro export to Cloud Storage.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/exporting-data",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.export[3]",
   "note": "Extract jobs support Parquet export to Cloud Storage.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/exporting-data",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.import[0]",
   "note": "Load jobs accept CSV from Cloud Storage or a local file.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/loading-data",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.import[1]",
   "note": "Load jobs accept JSON.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/loading-data",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.import[2]",
   "note": "Load jobs accept Avro.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/loading-data",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.import[3]",
   "note": "Load jobs accept Parquet.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/loading-data",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.import[4]",
   "note": "Load jobs accept ORC.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/loading-data",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "modalities.agent_docs.llms_txt",
   "note": "Opened https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/llms.txt; the URL returned 404. That is not a first-party agent documentation index.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/llms.txt",
   "tier": "scraped"
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  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.api",
   "note": "REST v2 is documented, discovery-described, read/write for warehouse SQL and resources, and paired with official libraries and bq. Extract destinations are Cloud Storage only, which keeps the path below unusual completeness across every Google data product.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/rest",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.mcp",
   "note": "The official hosted server is enabled with the BigQuery API and exposes metadata plus SQL tools. Google documents a three-minute query cap, a 3,000-row result cap, and no Google Drive external-table support, which keeps coverage useful rather than complete.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/use-bigquery-mcp",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.integrations",
   "note": "Zapier and Make expose query and table modules. n8n is query and insert only. Power Automate's listing is an Independent Publisher preview with a single Get Data action, which keeps the connector path useful but gated.",
   "source": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/googlebigqueryip/",
   "tier": "scraped"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.cli",
   "note": "bq is official, ships with the Google Cloud CLI, supports non-interactive scripts, and accepts structured --format output such as prettyjson. It wraps the same warehouse surface as REST.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/bq-cli-reference",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[0].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as Google's current BigQuery remote MCP setup guide, including https://bigquery.googleapis.com/mcp, OAuth, IAM roles, and tool limits.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/use-bigquery-mcp",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[1].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current BigQuery MCP tool reference, including list_dataset_ids, get_table_info, execute_sql, and execute_sql_readonly.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/mcp",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[2].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current BigQuery REST v2 service reference at bigquery.googleapis.com.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/rest",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[3].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current official bq command-line tool reference.",
   "source": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/bq-cli-reference",
   "tier": "declared"
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   {
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 "license": "commercial",
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    "service-account"
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   "exists": true,
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  },
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  },
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    "json",
    "avro",
    "parquet"
   ],
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    "parquet",
    "orc"
   ]
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    "sql"
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   "n8n": true,
   "power_automate": true,
   "zapier": true
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   "third_party": [],
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   "drivability": "unknown",
   "notes": "No repeatable UI probe was run. BigQuery REST, official client libraries, the bq CLI, and the hosted remote MCP server cover warehouse automation without browser control.\n",
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    "web-dom"
   ],
   "vendor_support": []
  },
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    "go",
    "java",
    "javascript",
    "php",
    "python",
    "ruby"
   ],
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  "web"
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   "snowflake",
   "databricks",
   "looker",
   "power-bi"
  ],
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 },
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 "score_version": 1,
 "status": "active",
 "vendor": "Google",
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   "cli": 8,
   "computer_use": null,
   "integrations": 6,
   "mcp": 7,
   "overall": 8,
   "rpa": null
  },
  "summary": "Google BigQuery is automatable today through the BigQuery REST API at https://bigquery.googleapis.com. REST v2 covers datasets, tables, tabledata, jobs including synchronous query, models, routines, and row-access policies. Callers authenticate with OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens. Workloads on Google Cloud use attached service-account credentials through Application Default Credentials. Official client libraries exist for C#, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, and Ruby. The official bq CLI, shipped with the Google Cloud CLI, runs non-interactive query, load, extract, and resource commands and accepts --format values such as prettyjson. Google hosts a first-party remote MCP server at https://bigquery.googleapis.com/mcp, enabled when the BigQuery API is enabled, using OAuth 2.0 and IAM. Tools list datasets and tables and execute SQL. execute_sql can write. Queries are capped at three minutes and 3,000 rows. Google Drive external tables are unsupported. Zapier, Make, and n8n publish BigQuery connectors. Microsoft lists a Power Automate Independent Publisher preview connector. HTTP webhooks for table changes were not established. Computer-use viability is unassessed. API and CLI both score 8; API is the best path because it is the machine contract and MCP remains narrower than REST.\n"
 }
}