If you’re unfamiliar with the tool jq, it describes itself as the “sed for JSON”. It’s a powerful command line tool that lets you do complex parsing and manipulation of JSON documents and is extremely useful for testing APIs or analysing JSON datasets. One challenge with jq, however, is finding just the right filter. The query language that jq uses is not always obvious, so typically you’ll spend a bit of time getting it just right to select the data you need.
