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Comment by kevinastone | Hacker News Reader

Would think jq[0] is more suitable if you're going to install a cli json parser.

Here is the command with jq instead of json_pp

    $ curl -sS 'https://www.google.com/complete/search?client=hp&hl=en&xhr=t&q=aurora' | jq . | gsed -nE '/<\/?b>/{s```g;s`"|,|^ *``g;p}'

(see my other comment about gsed vs sed)

You don't need sed, you can do it all in jq:

    curl -sS 'https://www.google.com/complete/search?client=hp&hl=en&xhr=t&q=aurora' | jq -r '.[1] | .[][0] | sub("</?b>"; ""; "gi")'

Here's the above modified to work with BSD sed:

  curl -sS 'https://www.google.com/complete/search?client=hp&hl=en&xhr=t&q=aurora' | jq . | sed -nE '/<\/?b>/{s```g;s`"|,|^ *``g;p;}'

(Edited to remove previous advice about inserting a newline)