rsonpath

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About

We just discovered rsonpath by @V0ldek and contributors. 🚀
See also its introduction: What is rsonpath?.

Details

If you are asking what's wrong with jq, the author provides a concise answer per Why choose rsonpath?:

The most popular tool for working with JSONs is jq, but it has its shortfalls:

• it is extremely slow
• it has a massive memory overhead
• its query language is non-standard.

To be clear, jq is a great and well-tested tool, and rq does not directly compete with it. If one could describe jq as a “sed or awk for JSON”, then rq would be a “grep for JSON”. It does not allow you to slice and reorganize JSON data like jq, but instead outclasses it on the filtering and querying applications.