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Life & fun · September 8, 2021

An Interactive Jq Tutorial

Interactive jq tutorial: learn to filter and wrangle JSON files using a command-line interface in your browser.

An Interactive Jq Tutorial launched on September 8, 2021 with 15 votes, #1,172 of 2,941 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

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An Interactive Jq Tutorial is a web-based learning tool for jq, a command-line JSON processor. It provides hands-on practice for users who need to query, filter, and transform JSON data. The tutorial guides learners through jq syntax and operations with interactive exercises they can run directly in their browser, making it accessible for developers and data professionals seeking to master JSON manipulation without installing software locally.

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This tutorial is an interactive version of the jq tutorial developed by Adam Gordon Bell . jq is a lightweight, command-line JSON processor. To use it, you construct one or more filters, and it applies those filters to a JSON document. The simplest filter is the identity filter which returns all its input ( . ): This filter is handy for just pretty-printing a JSON document. I’m going to ignore the pretty-printing and jump right into using jq to transform JSONfrom sandbox.bio

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