gron VS htmlq

It buffers all of its output statements in memory before writing to stdout:

https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron/blob/master/main.go#L204

Have you tried `gron`?

It converts your nested json into a line by line format which plays better with tools like `grep`

From the project's README:

▶ gron "https://api.github.com/repos/tomnomnom/gron/commits?per_page..." | fgrep "commit.author"

json[0].commit.author = {};

json[0].commit.author.date = "2016-07-02T10:51:21Z";

json[0].commit.author.email = "[email protected]";

json[0].commit.author.name = "Tom Hudson";

https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

It was suggested to me in HN comments on an article I wrote about `jq`, and I have found myself using it a lot in my day to day workflow

> So all I want is a tool to go from json => line oriented and I will do the rest with the vast library of experience I already have at transformations on the command line.*

The tool for that is likely https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

If JQ is too much, see GRON &| Miller

gron transforms JSON into discrete assignments to make it easier to grep for what you want https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for data formats such as CSV, TSV, JSON, JSON https://github.com/johnkerl/miller

And jless [1] and gron [2].

This is the first I'm hearing of gron, but adding here for completeness sake. Meanwhile, JSON seems to be becoming a standard for CLI tools. Ideal scenario would be if every CLI tool has a --json flag or something similar, so that jc is not needed anymore.

[1] https://jless.io/

[2] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

Other tools I am a big fan of are jq and gron, if those had XML counterparts many of the above tasks could be built using them. If your XML library could take Wasm extensions, then users could write their own predicates and you wouldn't need to implement your own language like jq did, it has its own internal bytecode based VM an jq language.

jq is pretty amazing. If you are comfortable with its jquery-like CSS selector syntax, then I should also mention a couple similar cli utilities that apply it to HTML: htmlp and pup.

Hey, author here, happy to answer questions! A few other recent posts/tools that you may be interested in:

- sqlite-lines discussion from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32288165

- htmlq, Rust CLI for (like jq but for html): https://github.com/mgdm/htmlq

- The Go library that sqlite-html uses for making runtime-loadable SQLite extensions https://github.com/riyaz-ali/sqlite

- sqlean, a ton of other helpful SQLite extensions (in C): https://github.com/nalgeon/sqlean

thanks. that reminds me their's a jq for html: https://github.com/mgdm/htmlq