How to get dict value from shell script?

Question

I have did a curl request and get the response bellow:

$ curl -s http://xx.com/api
$ {"key":"value"}

How can I get the value directly from the request? Like this:

$ curl -s http://xx.com/api | XXXX
$ value

You should probably look at this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3919750/parse-json-with-shell-scripting-at-linux — Hobblin, Dec 03 '11 at 16:18

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 03 '11 at 16:19

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curl -s http://xx.com/api | sed 's/.*:"\(.*\)".*/\1/'

answered Dec 03 '11 at 16:19

DejanLekic

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