jq

What it is §

jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor akin to sed,awk,grep, and friends for JSON data. — https://github.com/jqlang/jq

Where to find it §

Source: https://github.com/jqlang/jq

Site: https://jqlang.github.io/jq/

My thoughts §

Wanna feel like a wizard? A well-crafted jq invocation is nothing short of modern wizardry. You’re not just writing a command. No, no. You’re creating a spell.

Or if you just want a quick way to format some JSON, just pipe the sucker into jq and you’re set.

cat my-awful-unformated-file.json | jq

I’ve used interactive JSON traversal tools such as fx, but on really long JSON files (I’m talking many megabytes), those things are slow, but jq is blazingly fast. 🔥