Parse simple JSON string in Batch

Question

How do you parse a simple JSON string in Batch?

For example, if I have the following JSON string:

{ \"...\":\"...\", \"year\": 2016, \"time\": \"05:01\

Answer 1

Use https://stedolan.github.io/jq/, no need to use powershell or string manipulations in batch.

Example to get value of field from json string:

set "year={ "other": 1234, "year": 2016, "value": "str", "time": "05:01" } | jq .year"

echo %year%

gives you 2016