jq-lite — Lightweight jq in Pure Perl

Highlights

Pure Perl

No compiler. No native libraries.

jq-compatible

Readable filters for scripts.

CLI & library

Use it everywhere.

Installation

From CPAN

cpanm JQ::Lite

Alpine Linux

apk add jq-lite

Manual install (CPAN tarball)

ver=$(curl -s http://fastapi.metacpan.org/v1/release/JQ-Lite \
  | perl -MJSON::PP -0777 -ne 'print decode_json($_)->{version}')

curl -sSfL http://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/S/SH/SHINGO/JQ-Lite-$ver.tar.gz -o JQ-Lite-$ver.tar.gz

tar xzf JQ-Lite-$ver.tar.gz

export PATH="$PWD/JQ-Lite-$ver/bin:$PATH"

Usage

jq-lite '.users[].name' users.json

Use cases

Locked-down servers

No package installs allowed.

CI/CD pipelines

Minimal dependencies.

Legacy & offline

Old systems, air-gapped networks.