qp vs fx

qp

query-pipe: command-line (ND)JSON querying (by f5io)

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fx

Terminal JSON viewer & processor (by antonmedv)

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qp		fx
	Project
1	Mentions	50
130	Stars	18,509
-	Growth	-
10.0	Activity	9.1
almost 4 years ago	Latest Commit	about 20 hours ago
JavaScript	Language	Go
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

qp

Posts with mentions or reviews of qp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-21.

Ask HN: Local Tools for Viewing JSON
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Mar 2022

fx

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

Bash/Zsh autocomplete for JSON fields
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Mar 2024
Fx 32.0, now with YAML support too
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Mar 2024
Fx JSON viewer now supports YAML
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Mar 2024
Jaq – A jq clone focused on correctness, speed, and simplicity
28 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Nov 2023

There's also this awesome tool to make JSON interactively navigable in the terminal:
https://fx.wtf
Fx 31.0.0 Release
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Nov 2023
FLaNK Stack Weekly for 30 Oct 2023
24 projects | dev.to | 30 Oct 2023
jq 1.7
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Oct 2023
Modern Linux Tools vs. Unix Classics: Which Would I Choose?
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Sep 2023

Using awk/sed to parse json seems to be using the wrong tool for the job.
As an alternative to jq with easier to remember syntax, see https://fx.wtf/
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37567009
Fx – Terminal JSON Viewer
1 project | /r/hackernews | 21 Sep 2023
fx – terminal JSON viewer
1 project | /r/devopsish | 21 Sep 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing qp and fx you can also consider the following projects:

jless - jless is a command-line JSON viewer designed for reading, exploring, and searching through JSON data.

jql - A JSON Query Language CLI tool

jiq - jid on jq - interactive JSON query tool using jq expressions

jid - json incremental digger

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.

rq - Record Query - A tool for doing record analysis and transformation

dsq - Commandline tool for running SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Excel, Parquet, and more.

kubectl-jq - Kubectl plugin that works like "kubectl get" but runs everything through a JQ program you provide

sqlite-utils - Python CLI utility and library for manipulating SQLite databases

ngs - Next Generation Shell (NGS)