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Using jq and curl to Wrangle JSON Arrays from the Terminal

In this tutorial, we use jq and curl to query a web service and retrieve JSON objects containing embedded arrays. We then invoke a command based on each element in the array rather than simply printing the values to the console. A special thanks to one of my readers, B. Anderson, who left a comment on my Consuming Web API JSON Data Using curl and jq post and provided this question for us to explore. Let’s get started!

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