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Managing Jobs

Jobs describe actions performed on data in BigQuery tables:

• Load data into a table

• Run a query against data in one or more tables

• Extract data from a table

• Copy a table

Listing jobs

List jobs for a project with the list_jobs() method:

from google.cloud import bigquery

import datetime

# Construct a BigQuery client object.
client = bigquery.Client()

# List the 10 most recent jobs in reverse chronological order.
# Omit the max_results parameter to list jobs from the past 6 months.
print("Last 10 jobs:")
for job in client.list_jobs(max_results=10):  # API request(s)
    print("{}".format(job.job_id))

# The following are examples of additional optional parameters:

# Use min_creation_time and/or max_creation_time to specify a time window.
print("Jobs from the last ten minutes:")
ten_mins_ago = datetime.datetime.utcnow() - datetime.timedelta(minutes=10)
for job in client.list_jobs(min_creation_time=ten_mins_ago):
    print("{}".format(job.job_id))

# Use all_users to include jobs run by all users in the project.
print("Last 10 jobs run by all users:")
for job in client.list_jobs(max_results=10, all_users=True):
    print("{} run by user: {}".format(job.job_id, job.user_email))

# Use state_filter to filter by job state.
print("Last 10 jobs done:")
for job in client.list_jobs(max_results=10, state_filter="DONE"):
    print("{}".format(job.job_id))