jq is like sed for JSON data - you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with text. jq is written in portable C, and it has zero runtime dependencies.

jq supports the same set of datatypes as JSON - numbers, strings, booleans, arrays, objects (which in JSON-speak are hashes with only string keys), and "null". Booleans, null, strings and numbers are written the same way as in JSON.

jq supports the same set of datatypes as JSON - numbers, strings, booleans, arrays, objects (which in JSON-speak are hashes with only string keys), and "null". Booleans, null, strings and numbers are written the same way as in JSON.

Download jq. jq is written in C and has no runtime dependencies, so it should be possible to build it for nearly any platform. Prebuilt binaries are available for Linux, macOS and Windows. The binaries should just run, but on macOS and Linux you may need to make them executable first using chmod +x jq. jq is licensed under the MIT license.

jq supports the same set of datatypes as JSON - numbers, strings, booleans, arrays, objects (which in JSON-speak are hashes with only string keys), and "null". Booleans, null, strings and numbers are written the same way as in JSON.

jq supports the same set of datatypes as JSON - numbers, strings, booleans, arrays, objects (which in JSON-speak are hashes with only string keys), and "null". Booleans, null, strings and numbers are written the same way as in JSON.

GitHub returns nicely formatted JSON. For servers that don't, it can be helpful to pipe the response through jq to pretty-print it. The simplest jq program is the expression ., which takes the input and produces it unchanged as output.

jq supports the same set of datatypes as JSON - numbers, strings, booleans, arrays, objects (which in JSON-speak are hashes with only string keys), and "null". Booleans, null, strings and numbers are written the same way as in JSON.