Is there a `jq` command line tool or wrapper which lets you interactively explore `jq` similar to `jmespath.terminal`

Question

jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.
https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

Is there a jq command line tool or wrapper which lets you pipe output into it and interactively explore jq, with the JSON input in one pane and your interactively updating result in another pane, similar to jmespath.terminal ?

I'm looking for something similar to the JMESPath Terminal jpterm
"JMESPath exploration tool in the terminal"
https://github.com/jmespath/jmespath.terminal

I found this project jqsh but it's not maintained and it appears to produce a lot of errors when I use it.
https://github.com/bmatsuo/jqsh

I've used https://jqplay.org/ and it's a great web based jq learning tool. However, I want to be able to, in the shell, pipe the json output of a command into an interactive jq which allows me to explore and experiment with jq commands.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I've been using jiq and I'm pretty happy with it.

https://github.com/fiatjaf/jiq

It's jid with jq.

You can drill down interactively by using jq filtering queries.

jiq uses jq internally, and it requires you to have jq in your PATH.

Using the aws cli

aws ec2 describe-regions --region-names us-east-1 us-west-1 | jiq

jiq output

[Filter]> .Regions
{
  "Regions": [
    {
      "Endpoint": "ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com",
      "RegionName": "us-east-1"
    },
    {
      "Endpoint": "ec2.us-west-1.amazonaws.com",
      "RegionName": "us-west-1"
    }
  ]
}