SoftBestsjq
The command-line JSON processor that turns raw API output into readable, scriptable data.
Best for
Anyone who pipes JSON through a terminal and is tired of eyeballing minified output.
Why it deserves attention
jq reads JSON and lets you select, filter, map, and reshape it with a small query language, so a verbose API response becomes a few fields you can diff or loop over. It is a single static binary, works on macOS, Linux, and Windows, and is MIT-licensed with 36,000 GitHub stars. It is also a fixture of shell scripts and CI, which makes it worth learning once. The syntax is terse and takes practice, and it only handles JSON, not YAML or TOML.
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Can replace
- python -m json.tool
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