Data Catalog API methods that are related to Data Catalog search and metadata are deprecated and will be discontinued on January 30, 2026. See Transition from Data Catalog to Dataplex Universal Catalog. Methods that are related to policy tags and policy tag taxonomies are not deprecated.
Get an entry by target resource name. This method allows clients to use the resource name from the source Google Cloud Platform service to get the Data Catalog Entry.
HTTP request
GET https://datacatalog.googleapis.com/v1beta1/entries:lookup
Query parameters
Parameters
Union parameter target_name. Required. Represents either the Google Cloud Platform resource or SQL name for a Google Cloud Platform resource. target_name can be only one of the following:
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