Parsing json output for hive - json

Question

I need to automatically move new cases (TheHive-Project) to LimeSurvey every 5 minutes. I have figured out the basis of the API script to add responses to LimeSurvey. However, I can't figure out how to add only new cases, and how to parse the Hive case data for the information I want to add.
So far I've been using curl to get a list of cases from hive. The following is the command and the output.
curl -su user:pass http://myhiveIPaddress:9000/api/case
[{"createdBy":"charlie","owner":"charlie","createdAt":1498749369897,"startDate":1498749300000,"title":"test","caseId":1,"user":"charlie","status":"Open","description":"testtest","tlp":2,"tags":[],"flag":false,"severity":1,"metrics":{"Time for Alert to Handler Pickup":2,"Time from open to close":4,"Time from compromise to discovery":6},"updatedBy":"charlie","updatedAt":1498751817577,"id":"AVz0bH7yqaVU6WeZlx3w","_type":"case"},{"createdBy":"charlie","owner":"charlie","title":"testtest","caseId":3,"description":"ddd","user":"charlie","status":"Open","createdAt":1499446483328,"startDate":1499446440000,"severity":2,"tlp":2,"tags":[],"flag":false,"id":"AV0d-Z0DqHSVxnJ8z_HI","_type":"case"},{"createdBy":"charlie","owner":"charlie","createdAt":1499268177619,"title":"test test","user":"charlie","status":"Open","caseId":2,"startDate":1499268120000,"tlp":2,"tags":[],"flag":false,"description":"s","severity":1,"metrics":{"Time from open to close":2,"Time for Alert to Handler Pickup":3,"Time from compromise to discovery":null},"updatedBy":"charlie","updatedAt":1499268203235,"id":"AV0TWOIinKQtYP_yBYgG","_type":"case"}]
Each field is separated by the delimiter },{.
In regards to parsing out specific information from each case, I previously tried to just use the cut command. This mostly worked until I reached "metrics"; it doesn't always work for metrics because they will not always be listed in the same order.
I have asked my boss for help, and he told me this command might get me going in the right direction to adding only new hive cases to the survey, but I'm still very lost and want to avoid asking too much again.
curl -su user:pass http://myhiveIPaddress:9000/api/case | sed 's/},{/\n/g' | sed 's/\[{//g' | sed 's/}]//g' | awk -F '"caseId":' {'print $2'} | cut -f 1 -d , | sort -n | while read line; do echo '"caseId":'$line; done
Basically, I'm in way over my head and feel like I have no idea what I'm doing. If I need to clarify anything, or if it would help for me to post what I have so far in my API script, please let me know.
Update
Here is the potential logic for the script I'd like to write.
get list of hive cases (curl ...)
read each field, delimited by },{
while read each field, check /tmp/addedHiveCases to see if caseId of field already exists
--> if it does not exist in file, add case to limesurvey and add caseId to /tmp/addedHiveCases
--> if it does exist, skip to next field

Answer 1

why are you thinking that the fields are separated by a "},{" delimiter?
The response of the /api/case API is a valid JSON format, that lists the cases.
Can you use a Python script to play with the API? If yes, I can help you write the script you need.