MEmeepmorp·Jan 9, 2022
Since nobody else mentioned it, there's also jiq, which uses jq under the hood.
https://github.com/fiatjaf/jiq
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jid on jq - interactive JSON query tool using jq expressions
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12 sourcesNo, you cannot.
I'd advise you to fixup any forks on GitHub, e.g. https://github.com/fiatjaf/jiq/blob/master/LICENSE, which are currently in breach of license.
You'll need to inform anyone who forked your code, too.
This is something you agreed to in the following part of the license:
> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.
In Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]What kind of thing are you trying to do?
jq can get pretty deep but for most things in this area I'm not sure how it could improve upon, but would be interested in hearing alternatives.
https://github.com/fiatjaf/jiq
Is a realtime feedback wrapper which I find useful when crafting one-off command line uses for jq and it starts getting crazy.
In Tips on adding JSON output to your CLI appThe other tools mentioned are all good, theres also jiq, which lets you run jq interactively against an input until you get the incantation right, then confirm it to get the full output.
https://github.com/fiatjaf/jiq
In Jog: Print the last 10 commands you ran in the current directorySomething I just learned about the other day was jid [0] to help query the json keys
[0] https://github.com/fiatjaf/jiq
In An Introduction to JQFor everyone pining for a Jq with a different syntax: I have a bunch of links to alternatives collected, you might want to try some of them (some may be for different things than JSON):
https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-jq
https://github.com/TomConlin/json2xpath
https://github.com/antonmedv/fx
https://github.com/fiatjaf/jiq
https://github.com/simeji/jid
https://github.com/jmespath/jp
https://github.com/cube2222/jql
https://jsonnet.org
https://github.com/borkdude/jet
https://github.com/jzelinskie/faq
https://github.com/dflemstr/rq
Personally I think that next time I might just fire up Hy and use its functional capabilities.
In Q: A faster re-implementaiton of jq written in Reason Native/OCamlI have been very happy with https://github.com/fiatjaf/jiq
In JSON on the Command Line with JqThe links at the bottom are all interesting. Specially jl[1], which uses a functional, Haskell-like language.
The wrong one is the link to jid, which has a very poor language that claims to be like jq, but actually is just dot syntax and nothing else. jiq[2], my fork, has real jq underneath, so may be better, although it has some rough edges waiting to be polished.
[1]: https://github.com/chrisdone/jl
[2]: https://github.com/fiatjaf/jiq
In Show HN: Command-line JSON processing toolShow HN: Jiq, a JSON interactive CLI on top of jq
4 points · Open discussionShow HN: JSON incremental digger based on jq
2 points · Open discussionThe answer is NO for jid, but jiq uses jq internally: https://github.com/fiatjaf/jiq
In Jid – Drill down JSON data incrementallyOk, I've just hacked a version of this that uses jq[0] underneath, so you can do all the sorts of fancy queries jid originally doesn't support: https://github.com/fiatjaf/jiq
[0]: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/
In Jid – Drill down JSON data incrementally