I think people are underestimating the power of `bash+curl+jq`. In pretty much every scenario where I want to consume an API, I just fire up my vim+shellcheck+shfmt setup, split my logic into functions (using `local` for private variable, mind you), then just spam `get_endpoint | jq filter`s in a `getopts` loop, and bam, suddenly you have a clean and concise CLI.

Granted, Bash is quirky. So I should say I program in bash+shellcheck not just Bash.

And Jq. Jq is a functional programming language in itself! I do regex or string mangling inside jq filters.

Why should I use Python over this? The moment you want a clean and cool feature that Python has over Bash+jq, you should incorporate third party libraries. And adding just one non-std lib, means you have to resort to `virtual env`. And why not adding also `click` or `requests` or .. and now you have ~10 moving dependencies. Let's not talk about Python's subtle differences between versions.

Compare it to Bash-as-glue-of-unix-tools approach. You want image processing? Just use `imagemagick`. You want web scraping? `pup` is your friend.

ProTip: do `my_command || exit 1` if my_command is bound to fail. Or `if ! my_command; then printf >&2 "[ERROR] reasons"; exit 4 fi` for more elaborate exception-handling.