itchyny/gojq

Health v2 · maintenance only

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3796 stars · 147 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

gojq is a pure Go implementation of the jq command-line JSON processor, usable both as a CLI tool and as an embeddable Go library. It supports the jq query language with friendly error messages, arbitrary-precision integer arithmetic, and full portability without C dependencies.

Use cases

• query and transform JSON from the command line
• parse JSON streams in shell scripts
• embed a jq query engine in a Go application
• process large integers without losing precision
• get clearer error messages than jq when queries fail
• run jq on systems where compiling C jq is difficult

When to choose

• you want a portable, dependency-free jq binary
• you need arbitrary-precision integer math in jq queries
• you want to embed jq functionality in a Go program
• you value readable error messages for invalid queries or JSON

When to avoid

• you rely on jq's object key ordering or the keys_unsorted function / --sort-keys option
• you need exact behavioral parity with C jq, including its regex library
• you only need jq occasionally and already have it installed

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

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