Playing with `jq`, using the Albums api for a Facebook page. This is loosely based on the tutorial at: http://stedolan.github.io/jq/tutorial/

shell.sh

# pretty-print a JSON result
curl 'https://graph.facebook.com/memphispython/albums/' | jq '.'

# grab the data list
curl 'https://graph.facebook.com/memphispython/albums/' | jq '.data'

# Get *just* the first album
curl 'https://graph.facebook.com/memphispython/albums/' | jq '.data[0]'

# Narrow that first entry to some specific data
curl 'https://graph.facebook.com/memphispython/albums/' | jq '.data[0] | {name, location, link}'

# List just name & link for all albums
curl 'https://graph.facebook.com/memphispython/albums/' | jq '.data[] | {name, link}'

# "collect" the above data in a list
curl 'https://graph.facebook.com/memphispython/albums/' | jq '[.data[] | {name, link}]'

# don't forget to save it to another file.
curl 'https://graph.facebook.com/memphispython/albums/' | jq '[.data[] | {name, link}]' > albums.json

# OR, flatten the whole result into a list of album names
curl 'https://graph.facebook.com/memphispython/albums/' | jq '[.data[] | .name]'

# Look at who liked albums
curl 'https://graph.facebook.com/memphispython/albums/' | jq '.data[] | .likes | .data[]'

# Flatten the list of names that liked our albums (note: there's duplicates and errors about nulls)
curl 'https://graph.facebook.com/memphispython/albums/' | jq '.data[] | .likes | [.data[] | .name][]'