Personally I prefer https://github.com/jmespath/jp - it has a bit saner syntax based on an actual standard (at least for me it's easier to remember than jq).
And perhaps more importantly it doesn't mess with your numbers! Some other comment mentioned doubles, but I had a problem with Longs, jq would silently truncate them when they became to large to fit inside a float (I was working with random Long numbers used as secrets in some schema so it happened quite quickly in my use case).
Thanks for this; for the few cases/year I need something like `jq`, I just find its selector syntax too hard to remember (seems a common theme). `jp` seems way more usable.
And perhaps more importantly it doesn't mess with your numbers! Some other comment mentioned doubles, but I had a problem with Longs, jq would silently truncate them when they became to large to fit inside a float (I was working with random Long numbers used as secrets in some schema so it happened quite quickly in my use case).