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24 alternatives to JQL

A JSON Query Language CLI tool

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. JQL launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Jql – A JSON Query Language CLI Tool Written in Rust▲9
A JSON Query Language CLI tool. Contribute to yamafaktory/jql development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · 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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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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GritQL, a Rust CLI for rewriting source code▲280
Hi everyone! I’m excited to open source GritQL, a Rust CLI for searching and transforming source code. GritQL comes from my experiences with conducting large scale refactors and migrations. Usually, I would start exploring a codebase with grep. This is easy to start with, but most migrations end up accumulating additional requirements like ensuring the right packages are imported and excluding cases which don’t have a viable migration path. Eventually, to build a complex migration, I usually ended up having to write a full codemod program with a tool like jscodeshift. This comes with its own…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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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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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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ut – Rust based CLI utilities for devs and IT▲170
Hey HN, I find myself reaching for tools like it-tools.tech or other random sites every now and then during development or debugging. So, I built a toolkit with a sane and simple CLI interface for most of those tools. For the curious and lazy, at the moment, ut has tools for, - Encoding: base64 (encode, decode), url (encode, decode) - Hashing: md5, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512 - Data Generation: uuid (v1, v3, v4, v5), token, lorem, random - Text Processing: case (lower, upper, camel, title, constant, header, sentence, snake), pretty-print, diff - Development Tools: calc, json…
2025 · 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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Jlq – A CLI to easily tail+query JSON log files using Rust+SQLite▲10
Hi all! It's been a while since I posted something. Wrote this back in November to scratch an itch regarding tailing logs locally for multiple services. I know we all love jq...but I'm quite comfortable with SQLite and SQL so just wanted to use that instead. Published my first Rust crate today! My first public Rust project so be gentle :) . Hope you enjoy it! https://crates.io/crates/jlq https://github.com/hamin/jlq
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Querying JSON documents using SQL-like language in Scala▲70
SQL micro-dialect implementation for querying JSON objects. Written purely in Scala. - mmalek06/JsonSql
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files▲167
I built a Rust-based CLI/terminal UI for inspecting Parquet files—data, metadata, and row-group-level structure—right from the terminal. If someone sent me a Parquet file, I used to open DuckDB or Polars just to see what was inside. Now I can do it with one command. Repo: https://github.com/kaushiksrini/parqeye
Nov 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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JQL by Mixpanel▲96
A powerful new query language to analyze your data
2016 · mixpanel.com · its alternatives →
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MistQL, a mini-language for querying JSON-like structures▲55
A query language for JSON-like structures
2021 · mistql.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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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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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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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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Json2graphql – From a JSON file to Postgres-backed realtime GraphQL▲120
Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events. - graphql-engine/community/tools/json2graphql at master · hasura/graphql-engine
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A command-line utility-belt for hacking JSON and Javascript▲68
Command-line utility-belt for hacking JSON and Javascript. - GitHub - ddopson/underscore-cli at hn
2012 · github.com · its alternatives →
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CraftQL – A Rust CLI tool for GraphQL schemas manipulation and graphviz▲12
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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Trdsql – CLI tool that can execute SQL queries on CSV, LTSV, JSON▲9
CLI tool that can execute SQL queries on CSV, LTSV, JSON, YAML and TBLN. Can output to various formats. - noborus/trdsql
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A Fast HTTP Request CLI Powered by HTTL▲53
First HTTP programming language
2025 · httl.dev · its alternatives →
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Python JSON library in Rust, faster than ujson▲40
Fast, correct Python JSON library supporting dataclasses, datetimes, and numpy - ijl/orjson
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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