Discussion on: Here is a little script to grab a list of all font names on Google Fonts.

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Cool script!

If you haven't already, you would probably benefit a lot from a tool like jq, which will give you superpowers in this context!

YCM Jason • Mar 3 '18

Ya, but I guess some how want to run this script every time I deploy the site. So I didn't want to bother installing jq on the production and staging servers. So I decided to go for a more primitive way.

Doruk Kutlu • Jul 16 '20

With jq;

curl -s "https://www.googleapis.com/webfonts/v1/webfonts?key=$GOOGLE_API_KEY&sort=alpha" | jq -r '.items[].family'

Jonas Strømsodd • Mar 3 '18

That makes sense. I wouldn't want to necessarily install jq for such a simple task, either.

YCM Jason • Mar 3 '18 • Edited

Hmm, I haven't look into jq yet, but I don't feel that jq is very easy to use from what I have scanned through.

Maybe I will start another project that makes json manipulation easier for people who are familiar with Javascript. Something like this is in my mind:

echo something.json | jsonpipe 'it.map(obj => obj.value).filter(v => v > 30)'

This would be much more easier for people who are familiar with Javascript already.

Jonas Strømsodd • Mar 3 '18 • Edited

I guess jq has a bit of a learning curve. Something like awk, but with JavaScript syntax, I think could be useful to many JavaScript developers!

YCM Jason • Mar 3 '18

Stay tuned. I will make one. :P

YCM Jason • Mar 4 '18

looks like something similar exists.

npmjs.com/package/json

Jonas Strømsodd • Mar 5 '18

Nice, I will have to check it out!