jq
Medium — good to knowGeneral Dev
ELI5 — The Vibe Check
Your API returns 400 lines of JSON. You want just the name field from every object in the users array. 'curl url | jq .users.name' does it in one pipe. jq is a tiny DSL for manipulating JSON in the shell, and once you learn it you'll pipe everything through it. It's also great for prettyprinting.
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