# mikefarah/yq

> A portable command-line processor for YAML, JSON, XML, CSV, TOML, HCL and properties using jq-like syntax. It lets you read, filter and modify structured config files directly from the shell.

- Magnitude: 1.8 out of 10 — Quiet
- Stars: 16,070 total · +1 star measured 2026-10-11, 00:02–11:08 UTC, ≈ 2 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Go · License: MIT · Created: 2015-09-26 · Last push: 2026-10-09
- GitHub: https://github.com/mikefarah/yq · Homepage: https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/mikefarah/yq

## Useful for

- Update a field in a Kubernetes manifest without editing YAML by hand
- Extract specific fields from a JSON API response inside a bash script
- Convert CSV or XML into YAML for further processing

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-11 (UTC), 00:02–11:08: 16069 → 16070 stars (+1). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +2 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- About 227 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 3,110
- Issues and pull requests: 2,391
- Watchers: 68
- Average over the last week: 3 per day
- Usual pace: 5 per day
- Latest release: v4.54.1 (2026-09-29)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-11-02: 9, 4, 6, 3, 2, 3, 1, 0, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

09-28 2.3, 09-29 2.4, 09-30 2.3, 10-01 2.2, 10-02 2.1, 10-03 2.2, 10-04 2.4, 10-05 2.4, 10-06 2.1, 10-07 2.3, 10-08 2.0, 10-09 2.2, 10-10 2.1, 10-11 1.8

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-11 11:14 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.