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24 alternatives to Interactive jq, but it's a bash script using fzf

I was searching for an interactive jq editor when I came across this repo [1], which had an intriguing suggestion for a CLI using only fzf: echo '' | fzf --print-query --preview "cat *.json | jq {q}" This sent me down a rabbit hole, and I discovered just how incredibly configurable fzf is. For instance: - `--bind=ctrl-y:execute-silent(jq {q} $tempfile | pbcopy)`: You can bind custom keys to execute non-default behaviors, like copying the current selection or `echo`-ing. - `--query="."`: Start fzf with an initial query (e.g., `.` for jq queries) to streamline the experience. -…

Interactive jq is a bash script that provides an interactive JSON query editor using fzf. It lets developers explore and filter JSON data with live preview while typing jq queries. The tool uses fzf's customizable… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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jnv: interactive JSON filter using jq▲373
Interactive JSON filter using jq. Contribute to ynqa/jnv development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Jqview, a simple native GUI for inspecting JSON with jq▲208
simplest possible native GUI for inspecting JSON objects with jq - fiatjaf/jqview
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Jq-Like Tool for Markdown▲325
There have been a few times I wanted the ability to select some text out of a Markdown doc. For example, a GitHub CI check to ensure that PRs / issues / etc are properly formatted. This can be done to some extent with regex, but those expressions are brittle and hard to read or edit later. mdq uses a familiar pipe syntax to navigate the Markdown in a structured way. It's in 0.x because I don't want to fully commit to the syntax being stable, in case real-world testing shows that the syntax needs tweaking. But I think the project is in a pretty good spot overall, and would be…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Qq: like jq, but can transcode between many formats▲115
qq is jq inspired interoperable config format transcoder with interactive querying. It features an optional interactive editor with autocomplete for structured data. And supports inputs and outputs for json, xml, ini, toml, yaml, hcl, tf, and csv to varying degrees of capability.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Jless, a command-line JSON viewer▲344
Hey, Hacker News! Today I'm proud to release jless, a command-line JSON viewer. jless provides a JSON viewing experience similar to what you see in a browser's network tab in the developer console, but from the comfort of your terminal, with a whole suite of vim-inspired key bindings to easily manipulate your view of the data and full-text regex search. I'm sure many of you have some piped together some combination of cat, jq and less before; hopefully jless can replace that usage (hence the name). It supports newline delimited JSON too, so it can handle any output from jq. I built jless to…
2022 · pauljuliusmartinez.github.io · its alternatives →
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An Interactive Jq Tutorial▲15
Interactive jq tutorial: learn to filter and wrangle JSON files using a command-line interface in your browser.
2021 · sandbox.bio · its alternatives →
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jql – Easier jq Alternative with a Lispy Syntax Written in Go▲217
Easy JSON Query Processor with a Lispy syntax in Go - cube2222/jql
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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gq – like jq or zq, but you use Go▲107
Hi HN. I've gotten pretty tired of needing to learn a custom programming language for a tool I use once a week or less. So I figured, it might be easier to pick up if `jq` used a programming language I already know. Voila, gq.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Jb / json.bash – Command-line tool (and bash library) that creates JSON▲183
jb is a UNIX tool that creates JSON, for shell scripts or interactive use. Its "one thing" is to get shell-native data (environment variables, files, program output) to somewhere else, using JSON encapsulate it robustly. I wrote this because I wanted a robust and ergonomic way to create ad-hoc JSON data from the command line and scripts. I wanted errors to not pass silently, not coerce data types, not put secrets into argv. I wanted to leverage shell features/patterns like process substitution, environment variables, reading/streaming from files and null-terminated data. If you…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Turn your fzf into a live REPL▲190
Turn Your fzf Into a Live REPL
2019 · paweldu.dev · its alternatives →
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JSON Query▲154
I'm working on a tool that will probably involve querying JSON documents and I'm asking myself how to expose that functionality to my users. I like the power of `jq` and the fact that LLMs are proficient at it, but I find it right out impossible to come up with the right `jq` incantations myself. Has anyone here been in a similar situation? Which tool / language did you end up exposing to your users?
Oct 2025 · jsonquerylang.org · its alternatives →
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ijq – Interactive jq▲11
2021 · sr.ht · its alternatives →
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A tool like jq, but for parsing HTML▲40
jq, but for HTML. Contribute to orf/html-query development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Editor.js▲723
A block-styled editor with clean JSON output
2019 · editorjs.io · its alternatives →
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JQPlay▲71
Stream editor for JSON live in the browser
2015 · play.jqlang.org · its alternatives →
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FSQL – Search through your file system with SQL-esque queries▲341
Search for files using a fun query language. Contribute to kashav/fsql development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Supercharge jq/yq interactivity using fzf▲9
1. Instant Results: See the output of your jq filter in real-time. 2. Error Handling: Encounter a syntax error? It will display the error message and the results of the closest valid filter. 3. Compact View: Enjoy a more readable JSON output with the option to display it in YAML format.
2024 · x-cmd.com · its alternatives →
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JSON For You – Visualize JSON in graph or table views▲211
After two years of improvement, I think it's time to share it with you all. Here’s a quick overview: - Common features include validation, formatting, minification, and more. - Visualize JSON in a graph or table view. - Structured comparison with fallback to text comparison. - Navigate though JSON using JSON pointer. - Supports jq. Would love to hear the community's questions, thoughts and comments!
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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JAQT – JavaScript Queries and Transformations▲100
Hi all, I've made a javascript library to simplify searching/sorting/filtering in arrays of objects. Its inspired by both GraphQL and SQL, but implemented using javascript Proxies. Instead of creating a new language, its all just javascript. I've made it as part of an experimental database, which uses javascript as the query engine. The normal javascript map/reduce/sort functions are quite difficult to master for junior developers. JAQT is easier to explain, and can still be used in combination with any existing array functions. Please let me know what you think of the…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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PgJQ: Use Jq in Postgres▲39
jq extension for Postgres. Contribute to Florents-Tselai/pgJQ development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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JQL – A JSON Query Language CLI Tool Built with Rust▲25
crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects
2020 · crates.io · its alternatives →
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cq – Query CSVs using SQL▲80
Query CSVs using SQL. Contribute to jolmg/cq development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SQLite query inside a Bash function▲134
Part of the workflow for building my website is the generation of a table in tab-separated column format (.tsv). The source data is found in four other .tsv files. I use an SQLite query to perform a 4-way join and write out the new table. For convenience, I wrote a script that encapsulates the query inside a Bash function. The example below illustrates this technique. repertoire() { pushd $CMM_SOURCES/_data sqlite3 <<EOS .headers on .mode tabs .import category.tsv category .import composition.tsv composition .import concert.tsv concert .import program.tsv program .once repertoire.tsv…
2021 · its alternatives →
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Write JSON processor queries (jq) in natural language▲38
Hey HN! Jaiqu is an AI agent for creating repeatable JSON transforms using jq query language syntax. Jaiqu translates complex JSON structures into repeatable jq queries. jq is a command line utility built for fast, reliable JSON queries. Jaiqu takes advantage of the LLMs for both constructing jq queries as well as using feedback to fix errors/invalid results if those queries are incorrect. Writing code to parse JSON is super annoying. It usually involves manually reading huge JSON balls, parsing the keys in a language of your choice, and pulling the data manually. Also, you're likely to…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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