Parsing Twitter Information with jq ("text": null) - api

Question

I am trying to do some Twitter-analysis via Twurl and extract some information via jq.
I firstly get some tweets via twurl with the command
twurl /1.1/users/search.json?q=judo
Then i used the following line to structure the outpot with jq:
twurl /1.1/users/search.json?q=judo | jq
i get something like this:
[
{
"id": 173752759,
"id_str": "173752759",
"name": "#JudoWorlds 🥋",
"screen_name": "Judo",
"location": "Worldwide",
"description": "The Official Twitter Account of the International Judo Federation 🥋",
"url": "https:.....",
"entities": {
"url": {
"urls": [
{
"url": "https://......",
"expanded_url": "https://www.ijf.org/news/show/5-must-see-preliminary-round-clashes-2",
"display_url": "ijf.org/news/show/5-mu…",
"indices": [
0,
23
]
}
]
},
"description": {
"urls": []
}
},
"protected": false,
"followers_count": 59854,
"friends_count": 847,
"listed_count": 529,
"created_at": "Mon Aug 02 07:55:15 +0000 2010",
"favourites_count": 7074,
"utc_offset": null,
"time_zone": null,
"geo_enabled": true,
"verified": true,
"statuses_count": 16532,
"lang": null,
"status": {
"created_at": "Fri Aug 30 08:27:10 +0000 2019",
"id": 1167353053282013200,
"id_str": "1167353053282013184",
"text": "#JudoWorlds The Alternative Promo \n\n#NeilAdamsJudo https://.....",
"truncated": false,
"entities": {
"hashtags": [
{
"text": "JudoWorlds",
"indices": [
0,
11
]
}
],
"symbols": [],
"user_mentions": [
{
"screen_name": "NeilAdamsJudo",
"name": "Neil Adams MBE",
"id": 40488733,
"id_str": "40488733",
"indices": [
36,
50
]
}
],
"urls": [],
"media": [
{
"id": 1167352899267002400,
"id_str": "1167352899267002369",
"indices": [
51,
74
],
"media_url": "http://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1167352899267002369/pu/img/6yD1r7uaPV7p3y6a.jpg",
"media_url_https": "https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1167352899267002369/pu/img/6yD1r7uaPV7p3y6a.jpg",
"url": "https://......",
"display_url": "pic.twitter.com/0RlLbKLkN8",
"expanded_url": "https://twitter.com/Judo/status/1167353053282013184/video/1",
"type": "photo",
"sizes": {
"thumb": {
"w": 150,
"h": 150,
"resize": "crop"
},
"medium": {
"w": 1200,
"h": 675,
"resize": "fit"
},
"small": {
"w": 680,
"h": 383,
"resize": "fit"
},
"large": {
"w": 1280,
"h": 720,
"resize": "fit"
}
}
}
]
},
"extended_entities": {
"media": [
{
"id": 1167352899267002400,
"id_str": "1167352899267002369",
"indices": [
51,
74
],
"media_url": "http://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1167352899267002369/pu/img/6yD1r7uaPV7p3y6a.jpg",
"media_url_https": "https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1167352899267002369/pu/img/6yD1r7uaPV7p3y6a.jpg",
"url": "https://.....",
"display_url": "pic.twitter.com/0RlLbKLkN8",
"expanded_url": "https://twitter.com/Judo/status/1167353053282013184/video/1",
"type": "video",
"sizes": {
"thumb": {
"w": 150,
"h": 150,
"resize": "crop"
},
"medium": {
"w": 1200,
"h": 675,
"resize": "fit"
},
"small": {
"w": 680,
"h": 383,
"resize": "fit"
},
"large": {
"w": 1280,
"h": 720,
"resize": "fit"
}
},
"video_info": {
"aspect_ratio": [
16,
9
],
"duration_millis": 48800,
"variants": [
{
"bitrate": 256000,
"content_type": "video/mp4",
"url": "https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1167352899267002369/pu/vid/480x270/v4nkTg6qs9rpLq8M.mp4?tag=10"
},
{
"content_type": "application/x-mpegURL",
"url": "https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1167352899267002369/pu/pl/SQN57QxQFYcKWV7l.m3u8?tag=10"
},
{
"bitrate": 2176000,
"content_type": "video/mp4",
"url": "https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1167352899267002369/pu/vid/1280x720/8cyNocB_8CRjwVCI.mp4?tag=10"
},
{
"bitrate": 832000,
"content_type": "video/mp4",
"url": "https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1167352899267002369/pu/vid/640x360/uy2U7D_AEmbLdqEK.mp4?tag=10"
}
]
},
"additional_media_info": {
"monetizable": false
}
}
]
},
"source": "Twitter for Android",
"in_reply_to_status_id": null,
"in_reply_to_status_id_str": null,
"in_reply_to_user_id": null,
"in_reply_to_user_id_str": null,
"in_reply_to_screen_name": null,
"geo": null,
"coordinates": null,
"place": null,
"contributors": null,
"is_quote_status": false,
"retweet_count": 4,
"favorite_count": 17,
"favorited": false,
"retweeted": false,
"possibly_sensitive": false,
"lang": "en"
},
"contributors_enabled": false,
"is_translator": false,
"is_translation_enabled": false,
"profile_background_color": "0099CC",
"profile_background_image_url": "http://abs.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png",
"profile_background_image_url_https": "https://abs.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png",
"profile_background_tile": false,
"profile_image_url": "http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1057928008797970433/O3l2sKj0_normal.jpg",
"profile_image_url_https": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1057928008797970433/O3l2sKj0_normal.jpg",
"profile_banner_url": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/173752759/1565853008",
"profile_link_color": "0C3C42",
"profile_sidebar_border_color": "8F320A",
"profile_sidebar_fill_color": "F2CF41",
"profile_text_color": "000000",
"profile_use_background_image": true,
"has_extended_profile": false,
"default_profile": false,
"default_profile_image": false,
"following": false,
"follow_request_sent": false,
"notifications": false,
"translator_type": "none"
},
Because i am only interested in certain informations i tried to get the name and the text of the tweet with the following command:
twurl /1.1/users/search.json?q=judo | jq ".[] | { name: .name, text: .text }"
and i get this:
{
"name": "#JudoWorlds 🥋",
"text": null
}
{
"name": "#WeAreGBJudo",
"text": null
}
{
"name": "CBJ",
"text": null
}
{
"name": "Santos Futebol Clube",
"text": null
}
{
"name": "Marius Vizer",
"text": null
}
{
"name": "FF Judo",
"text": null
}
{
"name": "Santos FC 🇺 🇸 🇬 🇧 ",
"text": null
}
{
"name": "USA Judo",
"text": null
}
{
"name": "全日本柔道連盟 -ゴジラジャパン-",
"text": null
}
{
"name": "Vila Belmiro",
"text": null
}
{
"name": "Deutscher Judo-Bund",
"text": null
}
{
"name": "Bruno Secco",
"text": null
}
{
"name": "Bobby Judo",
"text": null
}
{
"name": "African Judo Union",
"text": null
}
{
"name": "JudoInside.com",
"text": null
}
{
"name": "For competitive judo",
"text": null
}
{
"name": "Judo Canada",
"text": null
}
{
"name": "Neil Adams MBE",
"text": null
}
{
"name": "Sophie Cox",
"text": null
}
{
"name": "Galatasaray Judo",
"text": null
}
Why is this and how can i fix it?
I tried other commands like :
twurl /1.1/search/tweets.json?q=afd | jq ".[] | { name: .name, text: .text }"
but got the error
jq: error (at <stdin>:0): Cannot index array with string "name"

Answer 1

If you need nested 'text' value from 'status' field you should use:
.[] | { name: .name, text: .status.text }
Or shorter version:
.[] | { name, text: .status.text }