yq VS jq

Compare yq vs jq and see what are their differences.

yq

Command-line YAML, XML, TOML processor - jq wrapper for YAML/XML/TOML documents (by kislyuk)
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yq jq
24 50
2,449 28,972
- 1.7%
6.1 9.4
5 days ago 3 days ago
Python C
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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yq

Posts with mentions or reviews of yq. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-29.

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 2024-02-27.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing yq and jq you can also consider the following projects:

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

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.

Jolt - JSON to JSON transformation library written in Java.

xmlq - filter xml in the command line with xpath

hn-search - Hacker News Search

jmespath.py - JMESPath is a query language for JSON.

JsonPath - Java JsonPath implementation

json5 - JSON5 — JSON for Humans