bqls

May 10, 2026 ยท View on GitHub

BigQuery language server

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3e980a26-bc9b-4c2b-8c5b-1e9582a6a644

Installation

Prerequisites

  • Go 1.25 or later

Install from releases

Download the latest binary from GitHub Releases and place it in your PATH.

Build from source

go install

Settings

Login to use BigQuery API

gcloud auth login
gcloud auth application-default login

Neovim

You can use bqls.nvim to integrate BigQuery with Neovim.

You can specify your BigQuery Project ID and location in the configuration. If not specified, the plugin will use gcloud config get project for the Project ID and US as the default location.

require("lspconfig").bqls.setup({
  settings = {
    project_id = "YOUR_PROJECT_ID",
    location = "YOUR_LOCATION",
  },
})

You can change project_id with workspace/didChangeConfiguration.

vim.lsp.buf_notify(0, "workspace/didChangeConfiguration", { settings = { project_id = "ANOTHER_PROJECT_ID", location = "ANOTHER_LOCATION" } })

VSCode

You can use bqls-vscode.

Save Result

In order to save for spreadsheet, you should enable Google Drive API.

  1. Enable Google Drive API and Google Sheets API
  2. gcloud auth application-default login --scopes=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform,https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive

Supported Protocol