Use jq to Extract and Format Values from a Large JSON File | 🖥 Modern CLI

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Shared December 12, 2020

The jq CLI utility is a powerful tool for parsing, extracting, and mangling JSON data. In this screencast I avoid a bunch of tedious copy-pasting by pulling some data from the YouTube API and then extracting and formatting the values I want from the 800 line JSON file.

jq - https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

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