qp vs jless

qp

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

jless

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

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jless.io

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qp		jless
	Project
1	Mentions	34
130	Stars	4,487
-	Growth	-
10.0	Activity	6.3
almost 4 years ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
JavaScript	Language	Rust
MIT License	License	MIT License

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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

jless

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

Jless – a command-line JSON viewer
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jan 2024

1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jul 2023
Jaq – A jq clone focused on correctness, speed, and simplicity
28 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Nov 2023

https://jless.io/ is similar, and will give you jq selectors so the two combine very well. (fx might have that feature too, I dunno)
Jless – A Command-Line JSON Viewer
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Sep 2023
jq 1.7 Released
33 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Sep 2023

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
Use Tetragon to Limit Network Usage for a set of Binary
6 projects | dev.to | 3 Aug 2023

jless
jless - A Command-Line JSON Viewer
1 project | /r/devopsish | 2 Aug 2023
Jj: JSON Stream Editor
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 May 2023

> * Switching to a GUI to browse the JSON that would let you copy the path to the current value would probably also help there*
Try https://jless.io/ then.
Final FLiP Stack Weekly of 2022
13 projects | dev.to | 23 Dec 2022
Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
69 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Dec 2022

What are some alternatives?

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

jql - A JSON Query Language CLI tool

fx - Terminal JSON viewer & processor

jid - json incremental digger

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

jq - Command-line JSON processor

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

jsonpath-rust - Support for json-path in Rust

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

visidata - A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data