tldr/pages/common/ajson.md

ajson

Executes JSONPath on JSON objects. More information: https://github.com/spyzhov/ajson.

• Read JSON from a file and execute a specified JSONPath expression:

ajson '{{$..json[?(@.path)]}}' {{path/to/file.json}}

• Read JSON from stdin and execute a specified JSONPath expression:

cat {{path/to/file.json}} | ajson '{{$..json[?(@.path)]}}'

• Read JSON from a URL and evaluate a specified JSONPath expression:

ajson '{{avg($..price)}}' '{{https://example.com/api/}}'

• Read some simple JSON and calculate a value:

echo '{{3}}' | ajson '{{2 * pi * $}}'