extract values from JSON using jq

Question

I have a JSON object that looks like this:

{
    "Accounts": [
        {
            "Id": "1",
            "Name": "Joe",
            "Zip": "11111"
        },
        {
            "Id": "2",
            "Name": "Jack",
            "Zip": "22222"
        }
    ]   
}

I am trying to write a jq query that gives me this:

[
    {
        "Id": "1",
        "Name": "Joe"
    },
    {
        "Id": "2",
        "Name": "Jack"
    }   
]

How can I do that? Thanks.

Answer 1

jq '.Accounts | map({ Id, Name })'

Will produce

[
  {
    "Id": "1",
    "Name": "Joe"
  },
  {
    "Id": "2",
    "Name": "Jack"
  }
]

as you can try online using this demo .

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• .Accounts selects the Accounts key
• map() will apply the following for each object ^{[ docs ]}
• Create object with Id and Name key ^[docs]

Answer 2

Demo https://jqplay.org/s/v01P2gDVc8

You can do

[.Accounts[] | {Id, Name}]