RFC 9535 JSONPath: Query Expressions for JSON in Python

We follow RFC 9535 strictly and test against the JSONPath Compliance Test Suite.

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Table of Contents

• Install
• Links
• Example
• Related projects
• License

Install

Install Python JSONPath RFC 9535 using pip:

python -m pip install jsonpath-rfc9535

Or uv:

uv add jsonpath-rfc9535

Or Pipenv:

pipenv install -u jsonpath-rfc9535

Links

• Documentation: https://jg-rp.github.io/python-jsonpath-rfc9535/
• Change log: https://github.com/jg-rp/python-jsonpath-rfc9535/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
• PyPi: https://pypi.org/project/jsonpath-rfc9535
• Source code: https://github.com/jg-rp/python-jsonpath-rfc9535
• Issue tracker: https://github.com/jg-rp/python-jsonpath-rfc9535/issues

Example

import jsonpath_rfc9535 as jsonpath

expr = "$.users[?@.status == 'pending'].name"

data: dict[str, object] = {
    "users": [
        {"id": "usr_101", "name": "Alice", "status": "pending"},
        {"id": "usr_102", "name": "Bob", "status": "active"},
        {"id": "usr_103", "name": "Charlie", "status": "pending"},
    ],
}

nodes = jsonpath.find(expr, data)

print(nodes.values())  # ['Alice', 'Charlie']
print(nodes.locations())  # [('users', 0, 'name'), ('users', 2, 'name')]
print(nodes.paths())  # ["$['users'][0]['name']", "$['users'][2]['name']"]

Related projects

• Python JSONPath - Another Python package implementing JSONPath, but with additional features and customization options.
• JSON P3 - RFC 9535 implemented in TypeScript.

License

python-jsonpath-rfc9535 is distributed under the terms of the MIT license.