About
A small query language for JSON. It turns tangled documents into exactly the fields you want. It filters, maps, orders and reformats, and can pretty-print or minify.
Install it
pkg install jq
Run this inside Termux. If the package is already present, pkg will say so and
do nothing.
Commands worth knowing
6 of the invocations you will actually reach for. Tap the copy button to put one on your clipboard.
jq . payload.json Pretty-print a compact document with consistent indentation. jq .items[].name data.json Extract one field from every element of an array. jq -r .version package.json Print a value as raw text, without surrounding quotes. jq .[] | select(.price > 100) catalog.json Keep only the objects whose numeric field exceeds a threshold. jq -c . data.json Emit compact output on a single line, the opposite of pretty-printing. jq keys data.json List the top-level field names of an object. Worked example
Run jq .items[].name data.json and this is what you should see.
$ jq .items[].name data.json
widget
sprocket
cog Developed by
Stephen Dolan .