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title: JSON
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JSON is the "Javascript Object Notation", basically a file format for
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data that's suitable for easy processing by most modern web-based tools.
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Several tilde.club programs expose APIs essentially by spitting out
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JSON as their output, including e.g. the list of recently updated home
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pages at
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http://tilde.club/~delfuego/tilde.24h.json
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If you're looking to parse JSON from the command line with a minimum of
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code, the `jq` program may be your thing. `jq` is a filter that takes
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JSON on standard input and produces JSON on standard output. Along the
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way in the middle you can do various standard sorts of file munging on
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a field by field basis.
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[Documentation for `jq` is in its manual.](http://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/)
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