Querying specific nodes

[beescuit]

Is there any way to make the CLI return the content of a specific meta variable?

As an example: Doing security research, I want to list all endpoints of an api written in express.js. for this I would use something like this:

app.$METHOD($ROUTE, $$$)

Is it possible to make the output be a list of methods and/or routes? Would be very helpful for just "querying" code :)

[beescuit]

Managed to do this using jq: sg -p 'app.$METHOD($ROUTE, $$$)' -l js --json | jq '[.[].metaVariables.single | {method: .METHOD.text, route: .ROUTE.text }]'

Not sure if its the best way though 🤔

[HerringtonDarkholme]

Hi Rafel, thanks for giving ast-grep a try! I'm about to suggest the --json flag.
The json output is designed for such use cases.

This is a perfect solution from my perspective.