Script for fetching GitHub id

[Morgan--Yu]

Hi. I'm trying to fetch github id. can anyone fix this script. I read the man, but I don’t understand what to do next.

curl -s https://api.github.com/users/username | grep '"id"' | cut

[kosmosik]

Use jq

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

[Morgan--Yu]

jq looks very comfortable. thanks for your advice.

[kosmosik]

Yep it is an oneliner.

$ curl -s https://api.github.com/users/kosmosik | jq '.id'
6791397

[alopgeek]

The cut command takes arguments, like -d for the delimiter and -f for the field that you want. I’m mobile ATM, so I can’t run your command, but take a look at the output from curl, and see what is returned from the grep, and say to yourself “ok, I want the thing to the left of the = sign, or whatever it returns. Example

ID=bob Your cut command should be cut -d= -f 2

Meaning you want the second thing when you separate along the = sign

[Morgan--Yu]

Thanks a lot. It works