Unix command-line JSON parser?

Question

Can anyone recommend a Unix (choose your flavor) JSON parser that could be used to introspect values from a JSON response in a pipeline?

Answer 1

You could try jsawk as suggested in this answer.

Really you could whip up a quick python script to do this though.

Answer 2

First, install the JSON module from CPAN:

cpan JSON

Then you can use this command-line parser (which you could put into a bash alias if you like):

perl -MData::Dumper -MJSON=from_json -ne'print Dumper(from_json($_))'

Answer 3

There is also json-comamnd if you happen to have node.js and npm in your stack.