[elesiuta]

> I too can never remember jq syntax when I need to. I usually just end up writing a Python script

Same here! That's why for small things I made pyxargs [1] to use python in the shell. In another thread I also just learned of pyp [2] which I haven't tried yet but looks like it's even better for this use case.

[1] https://github.com/elesiuta/pyxargs

[2] https://github.com/hauntsaninja/pyp