fast-json

This package implements fast extraction of part of JSON.

• 3.5x times faster than jq
• 4.5x times faster than JSON.parse

Notes:

• Fastest way of extracting part of JSON from file
• Arrays not supported currently
• Does not check for valid JSON (you can grab "foo" from here: {"foo": "bar", here goes anything)

Install

npm i @medv/fast-json

Usage

const fastJSON = require('@medv/fast-json')

const result = fastJSON(input, path)

Another example:

const result = fastJSON('{"foo": {"bar": 1}}', ['foo', 'bar'])

CLI

npm i -g @medv/fast-json

cat data.json | fast-json path to field

Benchmarks

Benchmarks were made with hyperfine on a big json (around 400mb).

Benchmark #1: cat data.json | fast-json gates aeroflot_ndc_gate gates_info airline_iatas

  Time (mean ± σ):      4.080 s ±  0.181 s    [User: 3.206 s, System: 1.205 s]

  Range (min … max):    3.877 s …  4.292 s

Benchmark #2: cat data.json | jq .gates.aeroflot_ndc_gate.gates_info.airline_iatas

  Time (mean ± σ):     14.938 s ±  0.198 s    [User: 13.009 s, System: 2.170 s]

  Range (min … max):   14.808 s … 15.347 s

Benchmark #3: cat data.json | fx .gates.aeroflot_ndc_gate.gates_info.airline_iatas

  Time (mean ± σ):     18.443 s ±  0.356 s    [User: 17.495 s, System: 2.661 s]

  Range (min … max):   17.731 s … 19.179 s

License

MIT