Want to parse JSON on the command line? Want a pipeable inline tool for JSON manipulation?

jq is a command line tool, easy to fit into your data pipeline. It can parse, search and manipulate JSON documents.

This talk will cover an introduction to jq and using it to search JSON objects similar to how grep is used for plain text.

Attendees will learn:

basic parts of JSON
key search
value matching
string match
using variables with jq
date handling
conditionals
regular expressions
prettified JSON output
plain JSON output
non JSON output