Find the value of key from JSON

Question

I\'d like to extract the \"id\" key from this single line of JSON.

I believe this can be accomplished with grep, but I am not sure on the correct way.

Answer 1

Just pipe your data to jq and select by keys

"data": {
    "name": "test",
    "id": "4dCYd4W9i6gHQHvd",
    "domains": [
      "www.test.domain.com",
      "test.domain.com"
    ],
    "serverid": "bbBdbbHF8PajW221",
    "ssl": null,
    "runtime": "php5.6",
    "sysuserid": "4gm4K3lUerbSPfxz",
    "datecreated": 1474597357
  },
  "actionid": "WXVAAHQDCSILMYTV"
} | jq '.data.id'     

# 4dCYd4W9i6gHQHvd

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