JSON_EXTRACT

A utility written to extract parts of JSON from STDIN.
Requires Python.
Put it somewhere in your $PATH.

Usage:

Given sample.json with following content:

{
  "first_level_key": {
    "second_level_key": [
      "foo",
      "bar"
    ]
  }
}

The following wil get "bar":

cat sample.json | json_extract first_level_key.second_level_key.1