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Hey Guys,

I´m currently looking to get a List of Static Groups from a specific computer. 
I found the API command: v1/computers-inventory-detail/{id} getting a large JSON with the Details.

Now I want to cut it down to:
1. only the Arrays from Key "groupMemberships"
2. maybe to all Arrays with "smartGroup=false"

I tried with plutil -extract, but I cant get the right Keypath...

Here is an example of my JSON:

"id" : "866", "udid" : "6A94F1BD-XXXX-XXXXX-XXXX-ECB58DFA0B61", "general" : { "name" : "MC-XXXXXXXX", "lastIpAddress" : "XX.XX.XX.XX", "lastReportedIp" : "XX.XX.XXX.XX", "jamfBinaryVersion" : "11.7.1-t1721056075", "platform" : "Mac", "barcode1" : null, "barcode2" : null, "assetTag" : null, "remoteManagement" : { "managed" : true, "managementUsername" : null }, "supervised" : true, "mdmCapable" : { "capable" : true, "capableUsers" : [ "XXXXXX" ] }, "reportDate" : "2024-08-21T06:55:17.421Z", "lastContactTime" : "2024-08-21T08:41:21.63Z", "lastCloudBackupDate" : null, "lastEnrolledDate" : "2024-07-01T08:28:35.256Z", "mdmProfileExpiration" : "2026-07-01T08:27:37Z", "initialEntryDate" : "2024-07-01", "distributionPoint" : null, "site" : { "id" : "-1", "name" : "None" } "diskEncryption" : { "individualRecoveryKeyValidityStatus" : "VALID", "institutionalRecoveryKeyPresent" : false, "diskEncryptionConfigurationName" : "FileVault_TK", "fileVault2EligibilityMessage" : "Eligible", "fileVault2EnabledUserNames" : [ "P231180" ], "bootPartitionEncryptionDetails" : { "partitionName" : "Macintosh HD (Boot Partition)", "partitionFileVault2State" : "ENCRYPTED", "partitionFileVault2Percent" : 100 } "plugins" : [ ], "groupMemberships" : [ { "groupId" : "1", "groupName" : "All Managed Clients", "smartGroup" : true }, { "groupId" : "12", "groupName" : "DEP enrolled Client", "smartGroup" : true }, { "groupId" : "15", "groupName" : "ComputerName", "smartGroup" : true }, { "groupId" : "18", "groupName" : "FileVault", "smartGroup" : true }, { "groupId" : "20", "groupName" : "NameSet", "smartGroup" : true }, { "groupId" : "23", "groupName" : "Adobe_CreativeCloud", "smartGroup" : false }, { "groupId" : "255", "groupName" : "Pilots", "smartGroup" : false }, { "groupId" : "256", "groupName" : "TS.CA Pilot", "smartGroup" : false } ],




I can see a couple ways to do this.

A simple way would be to use grep and its --before-context option to find “smartGroup” : false and then clean up the results with sed.

Or you could use xpath and its preceding-sibling syntax, which is a little more complicated but would result in cleaner results with one command. I have an example of how to do this with following-sibling here:

https://gist.github.com/talkingmoose/07ae935169e863b377c2290c40a660e0

Solved it in an rookie way :D 

As I just needed the values of the GroupIDs I got an textfile as output and greped it the way I needed
here is the cut out with variables:

# Inventory Collection from Computer inventory_details=$(curl -s -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer ${bearerToken}" "${url}/api/v1/computers-inventory-detail/$deviceID" -X GET) echo "$inventory_details" >> $txt_tmp # Use grep to delete everything except 2 Lines with: "smartGroup" : false grep -B 2 '"smartGroup" : false' $txt_tmp > $txt_tmp2 # cutting only Group IDs and writing into txt file awk -F'"' '/"groupId" :/ {print $4}' $txt_tmp2 > $GROUP_ID_FILE



 

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