Get Value from a curl command output - json

I have below 2 format for output which is an output of curl command the 1st one is from the swagger site and the 2nd is when I run the curl from linux.
I want to get the value for data fields in both the cases like the current value of data is 0 so it should be coming as 0 without double quotes.
how can we extract it in linux :
{
"status": "SUCCESS",
"responseData": {
"data": [
"0"
]
},
"error": null
}
OR
{"status":"SUCCESS","responseData":{"data":["0"]},"error":null}

You can use for that e.g. jq command with -r (or --raw-output) flag as follows:
(since the value of data is an array get e.g. the first element with [0])
curl https://server.com/rest-api/foo | jq -r '.responseData.data[0]'
# Test:
echo '{"status":"SUCCESS","responseData":{"data":["0"]},"error":null}'| jq -r '.responseData.data[0]'
# Output:
0

You could try with sed - assuming the format is consistent - something like this
curl https://server.com/rest-api/foo | sed -r 's/^.*data\":\[\"(.*)\"].*$/\1/'

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Bash JSON compare two list and delete id

I have a JSON endpoint which I can fetch value with curl and yml local file. I want to get the difference and delete it with id of name present on JSON endpoint.
JSON's endpoint
[
{
"hosts": [
"server1"
],
"id": "qz9o847b-f07c-49d1-b1fa-e5ed0b2f0519",
"name": "V1_toto_a"
},
{
"hosts": [
"server2"
],
"id": "a6aa847b-f07c-49d1-b1fa-e5ed0b2f0519",
"name": "V1_tata_b"
},
{
"hosts": [
"server3"
],
"id": "a6d9ee7b-f07c-49d1-b1fa-e5ed0b2f0519",
"name": "V1_titi_c"
}
]
files.yml
---
instance:
toto:
name: "toto"
tata:
name: "tata"
Between JSON's endpoint and local file, I want to delete it with id of tata, because it is the difference between the sources.
declare -a arr=(_a _b _c)
ar=$(cat files.yml | grep name | cut -d '"' -f2 | tr "\n" " ")
fileItemArray=($ar)
ARR_PRE=("${fileItemArray[#]/#/V1_}")
for i in "${arr[#]}"; do local_var+=("${ARR_PRE[#]/%/$i}"); done
remote_var=$(curl -sX GET "XXXX" | jq -r '.[].name | #sh' | tr -d \'\")
diff_=$(echo ${local_var[#]} ${remote_var[#]} | tr ' ' '\n' | sort | uniq -u)
output = titi
the code works, but I want to delete the titi with id dynamically
curl -X DELETE "XXXX" $id_titi
I am trying to delete with bash script, but I have no idea to continue...
Your endpoint is not proper JSON as it has
commas after the .name field but no following field
no commas between the elements of the top-level array
If this is not just a typo from pasting your example into this question, then you'd need to address this first before proceeding. This is how it should look like:
[
{
"hosts": [
"server1"
],
"id": "qz9o847b-f07c-49d1-b1fa-e5ed0b2f0519",
"name": "toto"
},
{
"hosts": [
"server2"
],
"id": "a6aa847b-f07c-49d1-b1fa-e5ed0b2f0519",
"name": "tata"
},
{
"hosts": [
"server3"
],
"id": "a6d9ee7b-f07c-49d1-b1fa-e5ed0b2f0519",
"name": "titi"
}
]
If your endpoint is proper JSON, try the following. It extracts the names from your .yml file (just as you do - there are plenty of more efficient and less error-prone ways but I'm trying to adapt your approach as much as possible) but instead of a Bash array generates a JSON array using jq which for Bash is a simple string. For your curl output it's basically the same thing, extracting a (JSON) array of names into a Bash string. Note that in both cases I use quotes <var>="$(…)" to capture strings that may include spaces (although I also use the -c option for jq to compact it's output to a single line). For the difference between the two, everything is taken over by jq as it can easily be fed with the JSON arrays as variables, perform the subtraction and output in your preferred format:
fromyml="$(cat files.yml | grep name | cut -d '"' -f2 | jq -Rnc '[inputs]')"
fromcurl="$(curl -sX GET "XXXX" | jq -c 'map(.name)')"
diff="$(jq -nr --argjson fromyml "$fromyml" --argjson fromcurl "$fromcurl" '
$fromcurl - $fromyml | .[]
')"
The Bash variable diff now contains a list of names only present in the curl output ($fromcurl - $fromyml), one per line (if, other than in your example, there happens to be more than one). If the curl output had duplicates, they will still be included (use $fromcurl - $fromyml | unique | .[] to get rid of them):
titi
As you can see, this solution has three calls to jq. I'll leave it to you to further reduce that number as it fits your general workflow (basically, it can be put together into one).
Getting the output of a program into a variable can be done using read.
perl -M5.010 -MYAML -MJSON::PP -e'
sub get_next_file { local $/; "".<> }
my %filter = map { $_->{name} => 1 } values %{ Load(get_next_file)->{instance} };
say for grep !$filter{$_}, map $_->{name}, #{ decode_json(get_next_file) };
' b.yaml a.json |
while IFS= read -r id; do
curl -X DELETE ..."$id"...
done
I used Perl here because what you had was no way to parse a YAML file. The snippet requires having installed the YAML Perl module.

How to iterate a JSON array of objects with jq and grab multiple variables from each object in each loop

I need to grab variables from JSON properties.
The JSON array looks like this (GitHub API for repository tags), which I obtain from a curl request.
[
{
"name": "my-tag-name",
"zipball_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/path-to-my-tag-name",
"tarball_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/path-to-my-tag-name-tarball",
"commit": {
"sha": "commit-sha",
"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/path-to-my-commit-sha"
},
"node_id": "node-id"
},
{
"name": "another-tag-name",
"zipball_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/path-to-my-tag-name",
"tarball_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/path-to-my-tag-name-tarball",
"commit": {
"sha": "commit-sha",
"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/path-to-my-commit-sha"
},
"node_id": "node-id"
},
]
In my actual JSON there are 100s of objects like these.
While I loop each one of these I need to grab the name and the commit URL, then perform more operations with these two variables before I get to the next object and repeat.
I tried (with and without -r)
tags=$(curl -s -u "${GITHUB_USERNAME}:${GITHUB_TOKEN}" -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" "https://api.github.com/repos/path-to-my-repository/tags?per_page=100&page=${page}")
for row in $(jq -r '.[]' <<< "$tags"); do
tag=$(jq -r '.name' <<< "$row")
# I have also tried with the syntax:
url=$(echo "${row}" | jq -r '.commit.url')
# do stuff with $tag and $url...
done
But I get errors like:
parse error: Unfinished JSON term at EOF at line 2, column 0 jq: error
(at :1): Cannot index string with string "name" } parse error:
Unmatched '}' at line 1, column 1
And from the terminal output it appears that it is trying to parse $row in a strange way, trying to grab .name from every substring? Not sure.
I am assuming the output from $(jq '.[]' <<< "$tags") could be valid JSON, from which I could again use jq to grab the object properties I need, but maybe that is not the case? If I output ${row} it does look like valid JSON to me, and I tried pasting the results in a JSON validator, everything seems to check out...
How do I grab the ".name" and ".commit.url" for each of these object before I move onto the next one?
Thanks
It would be better to avoid calling jq more than once. Consider, for example:
while read -r name ; do
read -r url
echo "$name" "$url"
done < <( curl .... | jq -r '.[] | .name, .commit.url' )
where curl .... signifies the relevant invocation of curl.

How to Iterate over an array of objets using jq

I have a javascript file which prints a JSON array of objects:
// myfile.js output
[
{ "id": 1, "name": "blah blah", ... },
{ "id": 2, "name": "xxx", ... },
...
]
In my bash script, I want to iterate through each object.
I've tried following, but it doesn't work.
#!/bin/bash
output=$(myfile.js)
for row in $(echo ${output} | jq -c '.[]'); do
echo $row
done
You are trying to invoke myfile.js as a command. You need this:
output=$(cat myfile.js)
instead of this:
output=$(myfile.js)
But even then, your current approach isn't going to work well if the data has whitespace in it (which it does, based on the sample you posted). I suggest the following alternative:
jq -c '.[]' < myfile.js |
while read -r row
do
echo "$row"
done
Output:
{"id":1,"name":"blah blah"}
{"id":2,"name":"xxx"}
Edit:
If your data is arising from a previous process invocation, such as mongo in your case, you can pipe it directly to jq (to remain portable), like this:
mongo myfile.js |
jq -c '.[]' |
while read -r row
do
echo "$row"
done
How can I make jq -c '.[]' < (mongo myfile.js) work?
In a bash shell, you would write an expression along the following lines:
while read -r line ; do .... done < <(mongo myfile.js | jq -c .[])
Note that there are two occurrences of "<" in the above expression.
Also, the above assumes mongo is emitting valid JSON. If it emits //-style comments, those would have somehow to be removed.
Comparison with piping into while
If you use the idiom:
... | while read -r line ; do .... done
then the bindings of any variables in .... will be lost.

Linux CLI - How to get substring from JSON jq + grep?

I need to pull a substring from JSON. In the JSON doc below, I need the end of the value of jq '.[].networkProfile.networkInterfaces[].id' In other words, I need just A10NICvw4konls2vfbw-data to pass to another command. I can't seem to figure out how to pull a substring using grep. I've seem regex examples out there but haven't been successful with them.
[
{
"id": "/subscriptions/blah/resourceGroups/IPv6v2/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/A10VNAvw4konls2vfbw",
"instanceView": null,
"licenseType": null,
"location": "centralus",
"name": "A10VNAvw4konls2vfbw",
"networkProfile": {
"networkInterfaces": [
{
"id": "/subscriptions/blah/resourceGroups/IPv6v2/providers/Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces/A10NICvw4konls2vfbw-data",
"resourceGroup": "IPv6v2"
}
]
}
}
]
In your case, sub(".*/";"") will do the trick as * is greedy:
.[].networkProfile.networkInterfaces[].id | sub(".*/";"")
Try this:
jq -r '.[]|.networkProfile.networkInterfaces[].id | split("/") | last'
The -r tells JQ to print the output in "raw" form - in this case, that means no double-quotes around the string value.
As for the jq expression, after you access the id you want, piping it (still inside jq) through split("/") turns it into an array of the parts between slashes. Piping that through the last function (thanks, #Thor) returns just the last element of the array.
If you want to do it with grep here is one way:
jq -r '.[].networkProfile.networkInterfaces[].id' | grep -o '[^/]*$'
Output:
A10NICvw4konls2vfbw-data

Bash jq modify json : get and set

I use jq to parse and modify cURL response and it works perfect for all of my requirements except one. I wish to modify a key value in the json, like:
A) Input json
[
{
"id": 169,
"path": "dir1/dir2"
}
]
B) Output json
[
{
"id": 169,
"path": "dir1"
}
]
So the last directory is removed from the path. I use the script:
curl --header -X GET -k "${URL}" | jq '[.[] | {id: .id, path: .path_with_namespace}]' | jq '(.[] | .path) = "${.path%/*}"'
The last pipe is ofcourse not correct and this is where I am stuck. The point is to get the path value and modify it. Any help is appreciated.
One way to do this is to use split and join to process the path, and use |= to bind the correct expression to the .path attribute.
... | jq '.[] | .path|=(split("/")[:-1]|join("/"))
split("/") takes a string and returns an array
x[:-1] returns an array consisting of all but the last element of x
join("/") combines the elements of the incoming array with / to return a single string.
.path|=x takes the value of .path, feeds it through the filter x, and assigns the resulting value to .path again.