Command-line YAML/XML processor - jq wrapper for YAML/XML documents
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Installation
pip install yq
Before using yq, you also have to install its dependency, jq. See the jq installation instructions for details and directions specific to your platform.
On macOS, yq is also available on Homebrew: use brew install python-yq.
Synopsis
yq takes YAML input, converts it to JSON, and pipes it to jq:
cat input.yml | yq .foo.bar
Like in jq, you can also specify input filename(s) as arguments:
yq .foo.bar input.yml
By default, no conversion of jq output is done. Use the --yaml-output/-y option to convert it back into YAML:
cat input.yml | yq -y .foo.bar
Mapping key order is preserved. By default, custom YAML tags and styles in the input are ignored. Use the --yaml-roundtrip/-Y option to preserve YAML tags and styles by representing them as extra items in their enclosing mappings and sequences while in JSON:
yq -Y .foo.bar input.yml
yq can be called as a module if needed. With -y/-Y, files can be edited in place like with sed -i:
python -m yq -Y --indentless --in-place '.["current-context"] = "staging-cluster"' ~/.kube/config
Use the --width/-w option to pass the line wrap width for string literals. Use --explicit-start/--explicit-end to emit YAML start/end markers even when processing a single document. All other command line arguments are forwarded to jq. yq forwards the exit code jq produced, unless there was an error in YAML parsing, in which case the exit code is 1. See the jq manual for more details on jq features and options.
Because YAML treats JSON as a dialect of YAML, you can use yq to convert JSON to YAML: yq -y . < in.json > out.yml.
XML support
yq also supports XML. The yq package installs an executable, xq, which transcodes XML to JSON using xmltodict and pipes it to jq. Roundtrip transcoding is available with the xq --xml-output/xq -x option. Multiple XML documents can be passed in separate files/streams as xq a.xml b.xml. Use --xml-item-depth to descend into large documents, streaming their contents without loading the full doc into memory (for example, stream a Wikipedia database dump with cat enwiki-*.xml.bz2 | bunzip2 | xq . --xml-item-depth=2). Entity expansion and DTD resolution is disabled to avoid XML parsing vulnerabilities. Use python -m yq.xq if you want to ensure a specific Python runtime.
TOML support
yq supports TOML as well. The yq package installs an executable, tomlq, which uses the tomlkit library to transcode TOML to JSON, then pipes it to jq. Roundtrip transcoding is available with the tomlq --toml-output/tomlq -t option. Use python -m yq.tomlq if you want to ensure a specific Python runtime.
Links
jq - the command-line JSON processor utility powering yq
Bugs
Please report bugs, issues, feature requests, etc. on GitHub.
License
Licensed under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0.
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