Jq: Getting all the values of an array

Assuming you have a json string or file containing an array such as:

{
    "response": [
        1000,
        {
            "text": "blabla"
        },
        {
            "text": "blabla2"
        },
        {
            "text": "blabla3"
        }
    ]
}

You can extract the values of the text field from the array using jq:

> jq '.response[].text?' file.json
"blabla"
"blabla2"
"blabla3"

Or you can select using the type of each array element using either jq '.response[] | objects | .text' file.json or jq '.response[] | select(type=="object" and has("text")) | .text' file.json

Finally, you can include a placeholder value for array elements without the text field of interest:

> jq '.response[] | if type=="object" and has("text") then .text else null end' file.json

"blabla"
"blabla2"
"blabla3"

Via Stack Overflow.