pyjq

import pyjq import json data = { "items": [ {"name": "Apple", "price": 1.0, "category": "Fruit"}, {"name": "Banana", "price": 0.5, "category": "Fruit"}, {"name": "Carrot", "price": 0.3, "category": "Vegetable"} ] } # Select names of all fruits, returning a list of results fruit_names = pyjq.jq('.items[] | select(.category == "Fruit") | .name', data, all_results=True) print(f"Fruit names: {list(fruit_names)}") # Get the price of the first item (returns an iterator by default) # Use next() to get the first value from the iterator first_item_price_iterator = pyjq.jq('.items[0].price', data) print(f"First item price (iterator): {next(first_item_price_iterator)}") # Using pyjq.run for CLI-like behavior, processing a JSON string json_string = json.dumps(data) all_prices_iterator = pyjq.run('.items[].price', text_input=json_string) print(f"All prices (from string input): {list(all_prices_iterator)}")