jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor. jq is like sed for JSON data - you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with text.
https://stedolan.github.io/jq/tutorial/
Parse JSON data using jq:
- Get all keys:
jq keys file_name.json - Get the data associated with a key:
jq .data file_name.json - Get the list of the data:
jq ".data | .[]" file_name.json - Get the first item of the list:
jq ".data | .[0]" file_name.json