How to extract a paticular key from the json - json

Question

I am trying to extract values from a json that I obtained using the curl command for api testing. My json looks as below. I need some help extracting the value "20456" from here?
{
"meta": {
"status": "OK",
"timestamp": "2022-09-16T14:45:55.076+0000"
},
"links": {},
"data": {
"id": 24843,
"username": "abcd",
"firstName": "abc",
"lastName": "xyz",
"email": "abc#abc.com",
"phone": "",
"title": "",
"location": "",
"licenseType": "FLOATING",
"active": true,
"uid": "u24843",
"type": "users"
}
}
{
"meta": {
"status": "OK",
"timestamp": "2022-09-16T14:45:55.282+0000",
"pageInfo": {
"startIndex": 0,
"resultCount": 1,
"totalResults": 1
}
},
"links": {
"data.createdBy": {
"type": "users",
"href": "https://abc#abc.com/rest/v1/users/{data.createdBy}"
},
"data.fields.user1": {
"type": "users",
"href": "https://abc#abc.com/rest/v1/users/{data.fields.user1}"
},
"data.modifiedBy": {
"type": "users",
"href": "https://abc#abc.com/rest/v1/users/{data.modifiedBy}"
},
"data.fields.projectManager": {
"type": "users",
"href": "https://abc#abc.com/rest/v1/users/{data.fields.projectManager}"
},
"data.parent": {
"type": "projects",
"href": "https://abc#abc.com/rest/v1/projects/{data.parent}"
}
},
"data": [
{
"id": 20456,
"projectKey": "Stratus",
"parent": 20303,
"isFolder": false,
"createdDate": "2018-03-12T23:46:59.000+0000",
"modifiedDate": "2020-04-28T22:14:35.000+0000",
"createdBy": 18994,
"modifiedBy": 18865,
"fields": {
"projectManager": 18373,
"user1": 18628,
"projectKey": "Stratus",
"text1": "",
"name": "Stratus",
"description": "",
"date2": "2019-03-12",
"date1": "2018-03-12"
},
"type": "projects"
}
]
}
I have tried the following, but end up getting error:
▶ cat jqTrial.txt | jq '.data[].id'
jq: error (at <stdin>:21): Cannot index number with string "id"
20456
Also tried this but I get strings outside the object that I am not sure how to remove:
cat jqTrial.txt | jq '.data[]'

Answer 1

Assuming you want the project id not the user id:
jq '
.data
| if type == "object" then . else .[] end
| select(.type == "projects")
| .id
' file.json
There's probably a better way to write the 2nd expression
Indeed, thanks to #pmf
.data | objects // arrays[] | select(.type == "projects").id

Answer 2

Your input consists of two JSON documents; both have a data field on top level. But while the first one is itself an object which has an .id field, the second one is an array with one object item, which also has an .id field.
To retrieve both, you could use the --slurp (or -s) option which wraps both top-level objects into an array, then you can address them separately by index:
jq --slurp '.[0].data.id, .[1].data[].id' jqTrial.txt
24843
20456
Demo