Extract element based on where clause in jq json

Question

My Json structure is like below.

How can i extract id of project whose name is ansible using jq?

The json file is very big

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  {
    "id": 38,
    "name": "ansible",
    "path": "ansible",
    "description": "Ansible playbooks, roles, and supporting tools repos"
  },
  {
    "id": 18,
    "name": "Analytics",
    "path": "analytics",
    "description": "Big Data Analytics projects"
  }

Answer 1

Assuming your input is actually an array of those objects, you could do this:

$ jq --arg name "ansible" '.[] | select(.name == $name).id' input.json