yq VS dasel

Install jq and yq, and wrap your commands with | yq -y ..

Confusingly there is another project called yq that does exactly what you're suggesting and it's a preprocessor that converts yaml to json and then used jq. https://github.com/kislyuk/yq

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I personally find the yq tool from https://github.com/kislyuk/yq much more useful: it has all the same options and formats as `jq` (as it's really a wrapper around jq). Rather than the `yq` in the OP here where only partial functionality exists.

XML data from the API can be parsed and filtered with xq. There may be multiple ways to get it; first try the yq toolset which includes it.

There is also yq [1], which attempts the same for yaml, toml and xml. (And confusingly also contains a binary named "xq" for querying xml, however with a different syntax)

[1] https://github.com/kislyuk/yq

wget https://github.com/TomWright/dasel/releases/download/v2.1.2/dasel_linux_amd64 install -o root -g root -m 0755 dasel_linux_amd64 /usr/bin/dasel

https://github.com/TomWright/dasel handles JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV

dasel - Comparable to jq / yq, but supports JSON, YAML, TOML, XML and CSV with zero runtime dependencies.

Another tool in this space is Dasel[1], which can handle querying/modifying JSON, YAML, TOML, XML and CSV files.

[1] https://github.com/TomWright/dasel

There also is dasel which combine jq, yq as well handling TOML, XML and CSV

dasel # most common human readable configs(json, yaml, xml...)

I have recently switched to Dasel (https://github.com/TomWright/dasel ) due to its ability to work not only with JSON but also with other formats.