Iterate into JSON values with pihole api command

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Is it possible to iterate into one of the JSON values with the pihole api command?
Eg if I have below:

$ sudo -u pihole pihole api stats/summary
{
  "queries": {
    "total": 943,
    "blocked": 0,
    "percent_blocked": 0,
    "unique_domains": 2454,
    "forwarded": 219,
    "cached": 602,
    "frequency": 0.03333333333333333,
    "types": {
      "A": 725,
      "AAAA": 120,
[..]

Can I do below somehow?

sudo -u pihole pihole api stats/summary/queries/types/A

Instead of:

$ sudo -u pihole pihole api stats/summary | jq -r '.queries.types.A'
725
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Usually you don't ask things like that without trying... HAHAHAH.

No.
This is not possible.

pihole api is not a complete API interface and only returns a limited set of endpoints, but the output is a plain JSON, which simplifies a lot the use of tools like jq.

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Oh yes i tried many ways :smiley:
Thx!

EDIT: Oh for those reading along, below are the ones you can GET:

$ sudo -u pihole pihole api endpoints | jq '.endpoints.get'
[
  {
    "uri": "/api/auth/sessions",
    "parameters": ""
  },
  {
    "uri": "/api/auth/app",
    "parameters": ""
  },
  {
    "uri": "/api/auth/totp",
    "parameters": ""
  },
  {
    "uri": "/api/auth",
    "parameters": ""
  },
  {
    "uri": "/api/dns/blocking",
    "parameters": ""
  },
[..]
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