ESesafak·Oct 13, 2025
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dasel
Unified querying, transformation, and modification of JSON, TOML, YAML, XML, INI, HCL, KDL and CSV.
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What it is
Unified querying, transformation, and modification of JSON, TOML, YAML, XML, INI, HCL, KDL and CSV.
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I love jq, but I also use JMESPath (especially with AWS CLI), yq (bundled with tomlq and xq as well), and dasel [2]. I also wish hclq [3] wasn't so dead! [0]:…
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- multiprocessio/dsq · linked in 2 of the same discussions
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Observed mentions: 2020-10-30 14:40:04 UTC to 2025-10-13 16:29:24 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
18 sourcesNo HCL support [0] though.
[0]: https://github.com/TomWright/dasel/issues/98
In Dasel: Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSVDasel: Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV
492 points · Open discussionI love jq, but I also use JMESPath (especially with AWS CLI), yq (bundled with tomlq and xq as well), and dasel [2]. I also wish hclq [3] wasn't so dead!
[0]: https://jmespath.org/
[1]: https://kislyuk.github.io/yq/
[2]: https://github.com/TomWright/dasel
[3]: https://hclq.sh/
In jq 1.7Seems like you meant https://github.com/TomWright/dasel (instead of damsel)
In Miller: Like Awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for CSV, TSV, and tabular JSONWhat is the general opinion about Nushell and this tools (or others)?
https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq
https://github.com/jqnatividad/qsv
https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest
https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc
https://github.com/TomWright/dasel
https://github.com/johnkerl/miller
https://stedolan.github.io/jq
https://github.com/harelba/q
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In Nushell.sh ls | where size > 10mb | sort-by modifiedAnother tool in this space is Dasel[1], which can handle querying/modifying JSON, YAML, TOML, XML and CSV files.
[1] https://github.com/TomWright/dasel
In yq: command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV and properties processorThere's also https://github.com/TomWright/dasel (supports JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV)
In JC – JSONifies the output of many CLI toolsDasel 1.25 adds a validate command
Dasel 1.25.0 adds a validate command. Select, update, delete and validate data from multiple file formats (JSON, YAML, TOML, CSV, XML)
https://github.com/TomWright/dasel
1 points · Open discussionI switched to dasel a while back. Not as powerful, but I tend to use node when I want to do anything complicated with JSON querying. I spend too much time rereading the jq manual to do anything non-trivial.
https://github.com/TomWright/dasel
In rq: Universal convertor between structured data (JSON, MessagePack, CBOR, etc.)I would definitely add dasel to that list. It's become my de facto serialized data converter, and regularly use it to convert between csv, toml, yaml, json, and xml using jq-ish syntaxes.
https://github.com/tomwright/dasel
In Zq: An easier and faster alternative to jqIn 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
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ry language CLI tool - https://github.com/yamafaktory/jql
qp: Command-line (ND)JSON querying - https://github.com/paybase/qp
[0]: https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation
Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV files
200 points · Open discussionFor anyone wrangling with data like I do. I use https://github.com/TomWright/dasel quite a lot (it supports various formats and conversion between them) Also csvkit https://csvkit.readthedocs.io for CSV to sql. And ofcourse pandas for analysis.
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