jsonquery

Commandline JSON querying

Example

example.json:

{
  "element" : {
    "value" : 1234,
    "size" : 2
  },
  "array" : [
    123,
    456,
    789
  ]
}

Get the element object

$ cat example.json | python jsonquery.py -q $.element
{
    "value": 1234,
    "size": 2
}

Look in all objects for the size element

$ cat example.json | python jsonquery.py -q $..size
2

Take output from first example and select size element from that

$ cat example.json | python jsonquery.py -q $.element | python jsonquery.py -q $.size
2

Find all elements in JSON object

python jsonquery.py -f examples/example.json -q $..*
[
    [
        123,
        456,
        789
    ],
    {
        "value": 1234,
        "size": 2
    }
]

Find extract second element in array

$ python jsonquery.py -f examples/example.json -q $.array[1]
456

Resources

• Online JSONPath Expression Tester: http://jsonpath.curiousconcept.com/
• Description of JSONPath: http://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/