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# Process JSON Output From gh With jq
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The `gh` (GitHub) CLI is useful for accessing data about your profile and
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projects from the terminal. With the `--json` flag, we can access the data in a
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structured way which is useful for scripting.
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Here is an example of pulling a list of all my repositories, limiting each
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entity to just the `nameWithOwner` and `description`:
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```bash
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❯ gh repo list --limit 1000 --json nameWithOwner,description
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[
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{
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"description": "My personal site -- joshbranchaud.com",
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"nameWithOwner": "jbranchaud/personal-site"
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},
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{
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"description": "Private repo for the NOTES.md of my TIL repo",
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"nameWithOwner": "jbranchaud/til-notes-private"
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},
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...
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]
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```
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If I'm using the `--json` flag, then I can add in the `--jq` flag to apply a
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`jq` query for additional processing of the output.
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Here I convert it to a series of tuples:
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```bash
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❯ gh repo list --limit 1000 --json nameWithOwner,description \
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--jq '.[] | [.nameWithOwner, .description]'
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[
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"jbranchaud/personal-site",
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"My personal site -- joshbranchaud.com"
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]
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[
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"jbranchaud/til-notes-private",
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"Private repo for the NOTES.md of my TIL repo"
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]
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...
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```
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Then I can add one more pipe to that `jq` query to turn it into _tab-separated
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values_ using
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[`@tsv`](https://jqlang.org/manual/v1.5/#format-strings-and-escaping):
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```bash
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❯ gh repo list --limit 1000 --json nameWithOwner,description \
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--jq '.[] | [.nameWithOwner, .description] | @tsv'
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jbranchaud/personal-site My personal site -- joshbranchaud.com
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jbranchaud/til-notes-private Private repo for the NOTES.md of my TIL repo
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...
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```
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This is useful because I can then pipe it to another program, such as an `fzf`
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command like [this repo selector that opens the selected one in the
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browser](https://github.com/jbranchaud/dotfiles/commit/f964ca10c6c4db3475411c2991dc2f1dfd18c818).
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