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BigQuery Access

  • September 11, 2026
  • 1 reply
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Dear Censys Team,

Thank you for granting my access. I'm looking forward to working with the data.

I've added the censys-io project to my Google Cloud account, but I'm still getting an Access Denied error when querying. The specific error is:
 

Access Denied: Table censys-io:certificates_public.certificates: User does not have permission to query table censys-io:certificates_public.certificates, or perhaps it does not exist. Project: censys-io Missing permission: bigquery.tables.getData

I've confirmed this is the account BigQuery is authenticating as. Could you verify whether I have been fully granted access on your end, and let me know if there's another path forward if not?

One more quick question: which dataset(s) hold historical data, and how far back does it go? I understand Censys retains roughly five years of snapshots. Is it possible to download the historical dataset that are older than 5 years (e.g. 2015, 2016, 2017)? Thnx!

 

Greetings from London,


Thomas Mosk

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MattK_Censys
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  • Censys Community Manager
  • September 11, 2026

Hey Thomas, it looks like we overlooked granting you BQ access in our initial pass. You should have it now. Please try again.

Looking into your second question, I’ll get back with you as soon as I can.