---
title: "jq Cheat Sheet"
description: "!https://lzone.de/cheat-sheet/jq"
date: 2023-07-28
published: true
tags:
  - ijq
  - jq
  - json
  - thought
template: link
---


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A nice cheat sheet for jq. jq looks so nice, but it so quickly gets overwhelming on how to select what you want.  I was able to make a jq contains query.

``` bash
curl  https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/posts/ | jq '.[] | select(.title | contains("python"))'
```