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If you rephrase that to tools which deals with what the endpoints emits there is a boatload. Most emits JSON but XML can be found as well. Personally I use jaq. Gojq is nice as well. Both. Inspired by the original ja. You can find many lists[1]. I would especially point out jid[2] which often comes in handy to explore apis. Or if we stay at the http calling level and the command line: wget or fetch. If you include scripting languages then most http libraries will do. With Python a simple approach would be "python -m json.tool". [1] https://ilya-sher.org/2018/04/10/list-of-json-tools-for-comm... [2] https://github.com/simeji/jid

It took me a while to grok jq, but now that I do I kinda like it? I don't think I want to learn yet another thing. I do like tools that complement/supplement jq though, like jid: https://github.com/simeji/jid

In addition to jq (already mentioned) here are some other useful CLI tools for dealing with JSON data. Descriptions are directly from GitHub. Note: dsq also has a companion GUI app called DataStation[0] if you're looking for that. fx: Command-line JSON processing tool - https://github.com/antonmedv/fx dasel: JSON, YAML, TOML, XML, and CSV query and modification tool - https://github.com/TomWright/dasel dsq: CLI tool for running SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Excel, Parquet, and more - https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq gron: Make JSON greppable - https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron jello: Filter JSON and JSON Lines data with Python syntax - https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jello jless: Command-line pager for JSON data - https://github.com/PaulJuliusMartinez/jless jid: Json incremental digger - https://github.com/simeji/jid jql: JSON que

You can do this with `jid -q`: https://github.com/simeji/jid (Its interactivity is keyboard- rather than mouse-based.)

Apparently, the author wrote this tool because jid was struggling with a 7MB JSON file. See https://github.com/simeji/jid/issues/66#issuecomment-4436718...

Stepping just a little beyond regular ‘loop and filter’ is already difficult without consulting the manual each time — being exacerbated by the impossibility of finding those things in the manual without skimming through most of it. Making an ‘if’ for variations in the input structure is easily a twenty-minute job. Outside of the basic features, Jq's syntax is increasingly arcane and unintuitive—maybe those working with it daily do remember the ‘advanced’ stuff, but I don't. I actually collected a sizable list of alternatives to Jq: https://github.com/TomConlin/json2xpath https://github.com/antonmedv/fx https://github.com/simeji/jid https://github.com/jmespath/jp https://jsonnet.org https://github.com/borkdude/jet https://github.com/jzelinskie/faq https://github.com/dflemstr/rq https://github.com/mgdm/htmlq And there's someone else's list

I wrote a 10-line script to interactively query JSON documents using jq from vim in a tmux pane. Like jid[1], but better. Here it is: jq-repl () { local query_file json_file new_pane_height nodemon_cmd change_aucmd jq_args query_file=$(mktemp) json_file=${query_file}.json cat /dev/stdin > $json_file new_pane_height=5 jq_args="$@ -C -f $query_file $json_file" nodemon_cmd="clear; jq $jq_args | less" change_aucmd="au TextChanged,TextChangedI <buffer> write" tmux split-window -l$new_pane_height $EDITOR -c "$change_aucmd" -c "set ft=jq" $query_file nodemon -q -d 0.3 -w $query_file -x "$nodemon_cmd" } dependencies: vim, tmux, jq, nodemon [1] https://github.com/simeji/jid

For 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.

Json Incremental Digger - https://github.com/simeji/jid "..drill down JSON interactively by using filtering queries like jq"

Some days ago someone posted https://github.com/simeji/jid here. As jq is a much more powerful, ready, battle-tested, beautiful and useful language for parsing and using JSON data, I forked it and created this jiq tool, which is the same, but supporting all jq features.