jq

jq. A very cool tool for someone who has to deal with JSON a lot, especially in the Unix shell. The tool can process JSON data with functions that are inspired by sed, awk, and grep. And you can pipe jq in a Unix-typical way or even use internal pipes in transformation expressions à la awk. And it all comes as a single-executable without runtime libraries except for libc - so it should even work as a static binary and thus be trivially installable with scp.