tidwall/gjson
Get JSON values quickly - JSON parser for Go
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Where it stands
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The project lists 25 contributors on GitHub.
Gained 81% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a fast and simple Go package to retrieve values from JSON documents using dot notation paths and queries.
- Delivers high-performance JSON parsing with zero allocations and supports complex queries and modifiers for flexible data extraction.
- Use for quickly extracting nested JSON values in Go applications without full unmarshalling for improved speed and lower memory usage.
- Use for processing JSON Lines format data streams efficiently by treating multi-line JSON as arrays for iteration and querying.
- Use for building custom JSON query pipelines with chained modifiers and custom functions to transform or validate JSON data on the fly.
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
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From the README
get json values quickly
GJSON is a Go package that provides a fast and simple way to get values from a json document. It has features such as one line retrieval, dot notation paths, iteration, and parsing json lines.
Also check out SJSON for modifying json, and the JJ command line tool.
This README is a quick overview of how to use GJSON, for more information check out GJSON Syntax.
GJSON is also available for Python and Rust
To start using GJSON, install Go and run
go get:This will retrieve the library.
Daily snapshots
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Forks
2.1K+1.2K
Open issues
101+3
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