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jq jmespath.py
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29,042 2,071
1.9% 1.9%
9.4 0.0
3 days ago about 1 month ago
C Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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jq

Posts with mentions or reviews of jq. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-21.
  • Frawk: An efficient Awk-like programming language. (2021)
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Apr 2024
  • Dehydrated: Letsencrypt/acme client implemented as a shell-script
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2024
  • I turned my open-source project into a full-time business
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2024
    I think like you. But also, one does not necessarily know beforehand that they will want to make money.

    Like a project could be born out of pure generosity, but after the happy initial phase the project might get too heavy on the maintenance requirements, causing the author to approach burnout, and possibly deciding that they want to make money to continue pulling the cart forward.

    However, here's something I do think: if you create something as Open Source, it should be out of a mentality of goodwill and for the greater good, regardless of how it ends up being used. OSS licenses do mean this with their terms. If you later get tired or burned out, you should just retire and allow the community to keep taking care of it. Just like it happened with the Jq tool [1].

    [1]: https://github.com/jqlang/jq/releases/tag/jq-1.7

  • How to load JSON data in PostgreSQL with the the COPY command
    1 project | dev.to | 2 Feb 2024
    In this blog we'll see how to upload the JSON directly using PostgreSQL COPY command and using an utility called jq!
  • How to Recover Locally Deleted Files From Github
    1 project | dev.to | 31 Jan 2024
    And we can then make it easier to find the commit by filtering the response with jq.
  • Essential Command Line Tools for Developers
    29 projects | dev.to | 15 Jan 2024
    Official Documentation: jqlang.github.io/jq
  • Command line tools I always install on Ubuntu servers
    4 projects | dev.to | 25 Dec 2023
    To handle JSON files and JSON outputs in a script or format and highlight it, jq can be very handy. Many command line tools provide a json output, so you don't have to write a custom parser for a table a list in a terminal. Instead of that, you can use jq to get a specific value from the output or even modify the output. For more information, you can visit https://jqlang.github.io/jq/
  • How I use Nix in my Elm projects
    8 projects | dev.to | 19 Dec 2023
    In some projects I've wanted to use HTTPie to test APIs and jq to work with some JSON data. Nix has been really helpful in managing those dependencies that I can't easily get from npm.
  • Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Dec 2023
    > I'd love to see programs communicate through a typed JSON/proto format that shed enough details to make this more independent, and get useful shell command structuring/completion or full blown GUIs from simply introspecting the expected input and output types.

    You should try PowerShell. It's basically Microsoft's .NET ecosystem molded into an interactive command line. I'm not entirely sure if PoweShell can make full use of the static types that build up its core, but its ability to exchange objects in the command line is almost unmatched.

    On Linux you can use `jc` (https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc) combined with `jq` (https://jqlang.github.io/jq/) to glue together command lines.

  • To a Man with `Jq`, Everything Looks Like JSON
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Dec 2023
    Yeah, but muscle memory bites me all the time and I put the backslash on the closing paren, too, because I'm so used to the regex usage of that syntax which needs them to match

    I also want to draw the reader's attention to the magic of |@uri <https://github.com/jqlang/jq/blob/jq-1.7/docs/content/manual...> for a bunch of cases, but doubly so in TFA's case where they're plugging strings into a URI context. Simple string concat often works great for "hello world", but the world is not always just hello, so one quick use of the filter and jq's got your back

      echo "the world's scary" | jq -Rr '"\(.)"'

jmespath.py

Posts with mentions or reviews of jmespath.py. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-29.
  • Automating Nightly Local Database Refreshes from Azure Blob Storage with Docker
    3 projects | dev.to | 29 Feb 2024
    The Azure CLI lets us write queries to filter the results of the az storage blob list command. The queries are written in JMESPath, which is a query language for JSON. In this case, we are filtering the results to only include blobs that end with the .bacpac extension and then selecting the first one as ordered by the lastModified property. If there are no blobs found, the script exits with a failure code. If we find a blob, we download it to the local path specified by the localPath variable.
  • What's New in Python 3.12
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Oct 2023
    For JSON there is the `jmespath` library which might help.

    https://github.com/jmespath/jmespath.py

  • jq 1.7 Released
    33 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Sep 2023
    I love jq, but I also use JMESPath (especially with AWS CLI), yq (bundled with tomlq and xq as well), and dasel [2]. I also wish hclq [3] wasn't so dead!

    [0]: https://jmespath.org/

  • Announcing serde-query 0.2.0
    5 projects | /r/rust | 25 Feb 2023
    Probably writing the query side of things is a lot of the fun here, but there is actually a spec (and a complying Rust impl) you can hook into for this JQ-like querying: https://jmespath.org/ ( https://github.com/jmespath/jmespath.rs ).
  • JMESPath
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jan 2023
  • Spring Boot logging with Loki, Promtail, and Grafana (Loki stack)
    5 projects | dev.to | 6 Jan 2023
    Thanks to custom variables that use labels, we can create various filters for the dashboard. You can look up my configuration of variables and extend it with an analogy way for your own needs. At the top, I marked the filter with detected pods in selected namespace. In the lower part, you can see a preview of all labels that are associated with a single log line. Most labels are meta information that Promtail adds during scraping targets. This part of the Promtail configuration provides it. In this section, I also marked a few labels that not comes out-of-the box e.g. leavel , class , thread . We added these labels using the Promtail json stage. You need to know that Promtail processes scraped logs in a pipeline. A pipeline is comprised of a set of stages. json stage is a parsing stage that reads the log line as JSON and accepts JMESPath expressions to extract data.
  • Who is JSON?
    1 project | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 3 Nov 2022
  • jmespath.py VS jertl - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 31 Oct 2022
  • YAML value retrieval
    1 project | /r/ansible | 25 Oct 2022
    The tester on the official website for JMESPath (what json_query is doing) has been useful to me: https://jmespath.org/
  • I've built a PathDict, a library that makes it easy to work with dicts!
    4 projects | /r/Python | 15 Oct 2022
    Interesting. How does this compared to Jmespath? Not saying Jmespath is superior, just wondering whether you were aware of it.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing jq and jmespath.py you can also consider the following projects:

yq - Command-line YAML, XML, TOML processor - jq wrapper for YAML/XML/TOML documents

jq - Command-line JSON processor [Moved to: https://github.com/jqlang/jq]

jp - Validate and transform JSON with Bash

yq - yq is a portable command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV, TOML and properties processor

gojq - Pure Go implementation of jq

jfq - JSONata on the command line

Jolt - JSON to JSON transformation library written in Java.

jello - CLI tool to filter JSON and JSON Lines data with Python syntax. (Similar to jq)

dasel - Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV files with a single tool. Supports conversion between formats and can be used as a Go package.

json5 - JSON5 — JSON for Humans

jmespath.terminal - JMESPath exploration tool in the terminal