jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor. You can use jq on a local development machine to slice, filter, map, and transform the JSON data that Unstructured outputs in much the same ways that tools such as sed, awk, and grep let you work with text.

To get jq, see the Download jq page.

jq is not owned or supported by Unstructured. For questions about jqand feature requests for future versions of jq, see the Issues tab of the jq repository in GitHub.

The following command examples use jq with the spring-weather.html.json file in the example-docs directory within the Unstructured-IO/unstructured repository in GitHub.

Find the element with a type of Address, and print the element’s text field’s value.

jq '.[] 
  | select(.type == "Address") 
  | .text' spring-weather.html.json

The output is:

"Silver Spring, MD 20910"

Find all elements with a type of Title, and print the text field of each found element as a string in a JSON array.

jq '[
  .[] 
  | select(.type == "Title") 
  | .text]' spring-weather.html.json

The output is:

[
  "News Around NOAA",
  "National Program",
  "Are You Weather-Ready for the Spring?",
  "Weather.gov >",
  "News Around NOAA > Are You Weather-Ready for the Spring?",
  "US Dept of Commerce",
  "National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration",
  "National Weather Service",
  "News Around NOAA",
  "1325 East West Highway",
  "Comments? Questions? Please Contact Us.",
  "Disclaimer",
  "Information Quality",
  "Help",
  "Glossary",
  "Privacy Policy",
  "Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)",
  "About Us",
  "Career Opportunities"
]

Find all elements with a type of Title. Of these, find the ones that have a text field that contains the phrase Contact Us, and print the contents of each found element’s metadata.link_urls field.

jq '.[] 
  | select(.type == "Title") 
  | select(.text 
  | contains("Contact Us")) 
  | .metadata.link_urls' spring-weather.html.json

The output is:

[
    "https://www.weather.gov/news/contact"
]

Find all elements with a type of ListItem. Of these, find the ones that have a text field that contains the phrase Weather Safety. For each item in metadata.link_texts, print the item’s value as the key, followed by the matching item in metadata.link_urls as the value. Trim any leading and trailing whitespace from all values. Wrap the output in a JSON array.

jq '[
  .[]
  | select(.type == "ListItem")
  | select(.text | test("Weather Safety"; "i"))
  | [.metadata.link_texts, .metadata.link_urls]
  | transpose[]
  | {
      (.[0] | gsub("^\\s+|\\s+$"; "")) : (.[1] | gsub("^\\s+|\\s+$"; ""))
    }
]' spring-weather.html.json

The output is:

[
  {
    "Weather Safety": "http://www.weather.gov/safetycampaign"
  },
  {
    "Air Quality": "https://www.weather.gov/safety/airquality"
  },
  {
    "Beach Hazards": "https://www.weather.gov/safety/beachhazards"
  },
  {
    "Cold": "https://www.weather.gov/safety/cold"
  },
  {
    "Cold Water": "https://www.weather.gov/safety/coldwater"
  },
  {
    "Drought": "https://www.weather.gov/safety/drought"
  },
  {
    "Floods": "https://www.weather.gov/safety/flood"
  },
  {
    "Fog": "https://www.weather.gov/safety/fog"
  },
  {
    "Heat": "https://www.weather.gov/safety/heat"
  },
  {
    "Hurricanes": "https://www.weather.gov/safety/hurricane"
  },
  {
    "Lightning Safety": "https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning"
  },
  {
    "Rip Currents": "https://www.weather.gov/safety/ripcurrent"
  },
  {
    "Safe Boating": "https://www.weather.gov/safety/safeboating"
  },
  {
    "Space Weather": "https://www.weather.gov/safety/space"
  },
  {
    "Sun (Ultraviolet Radiation)": "https://www.weather.gov/safety/heat-uv"
  },
  {
    "Thunderstorms & Tornadoes": "https://www.weather.gov/safety/thunderstorm"
  },
  {
    "Tornado": "https://www.weather.gov/safety/tornado"
  },
  {
    "Tsunami": "https://www.weather.gov/safety/tsunami"
  },
  {
    "Wildfire": "https://www.weather.gov/safety/wildfire"
  },
  {
    "Wind": "https://www.weather.gov/safety/wind"
  },
  {
    "Winter": "https://www.weather.gov/safety/winter"
  }
]

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