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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import fileinput as fi
+import json
+import sys
+import re
+
+JSON_INDENT=2
+
+# a little helper tool for processing and manipulating json streams.
+# just because jq is a little bit limited in its abilities to process json values.
+# especially here to filter out emojis with regexp and put filtered elements into new key-value pairs
+
+class regex_tuple(object):
+    '''
+    a regex tuple object consists of:
+      * regexp_str: regexp string
+      * keys_to_process: keys which are processed
+      * key_to_store_match
+    '''
+    def __init__(self, regexp_str, keys_to_process, replace_str = None, key_to_store_match = None):
+        self.regexp_str = regexp_str
+        self.keys_to_process = keys_to_process
+        self.key_to_store_match = key_to_store_match
+        self.replace_str = replace_str
+        self.regexp_obj = re.compile(self.regexp_str)
+    
+    @staticmethod
+    def create_from_string(s):
+        # delimiter is the first char:
+        d = s[0]
+        vals = s[1:].split(d)
+        if len(vals) != 4:
+            sys.stderr.write("Error creating regex object from string: " + s + "\n")
+            return None
+        reg_str = vals[0]
+        reg_key = vals[1]
+        reg_rep_str = vals[2] if vals[2] != "null" else None
+        reg_store = vals[3] if vals[3] != "null" and len(vals[3]) > 0 else None
+
+        return regex_tuple(reg_str,[reg_key],reg_rep_str, reg_store)
+
+class json_streamer(object):
+    def __init__(self, output_keys, regex_tuple_list, json_indent=JSON_INDENT):
+        self.output_keys = output_keys
+        self.regex_tuple_list = regex_tuple_list
+        self.json_indent = json_indent
+        self.regex_dict = None
+        self.create_regex_dict()
+    
+    def create_regex_dict(self):
+        d = {}
+        for item in self.regex_tuple_list:
+            for k in item.keys_to_process:
+                if k in d:
+                    d[k].append(item)
+                else:
+                    d[k] = [item]
+        self.regex_dict = d
+    
+    def process_json_object(self, stream_dict):
+        # for every registered key, look whether we have one in our stream object
+        for key, r_list in self.regex_dict.items():
+            if key in stream_dict:
+                for r in r_list:
+                    if r.key_to_store_match is not None:
+                        # looking for all occurences and storing them in an on json key
+                        matches = r.regexp_obj.findall(stream_dict[key])
+                        stream_dict[r.key_to_store_match] = matches # TODO: can not handle multiple rules storing in the same key!!!
+                    if r.replace_str is not None:
+                        # replacing all occurences
+                        stream_dict[key] = r.regexp_obj.sub(r.replace_str, stream_dict[key])
+    
+    def main_stream(self, stream_input = sys.stdin, stream_output = sys.stdout, stream_error = sys.stderr):
+        processed_buffer= ""
+        depth = 0               # bracket depth (in case we have to handle nested json objects)
+        inside_quotes = False   # used for deteting whether we are inside a string in order to ignore brackets inside quotes
+        line_counter = 0
+        current_batch_start_line = 0
+        success_batch_counter = 0
+        fail_batch_counter = 0
+
+        prev_c = ''
+
+        for line in stream_input:
+            line_counter+=1
+            for c in line:
+                if c == '{' and not inside_quotes:
+                    if depth == 0:
+                        current_batch_start_line = line_counter
+                    depth += 1
+                    processed_buffer += c
+                elif c == '}' and depth > 0 and not inside_quotes:
+                    depth -= 1
+                    processed_buffer += c
+                    if depth == 0:
+                        try:
+                            d = json.loads(processed_buffer)
+                            self.process_json_object(d)
+                            stream_output.write(json.dumps(d, indent=self.json_indent, ensure_ascii=False))
+                            processed_buffer = ""
+                            success_batch_counter += 1
+                        except json.decoder.JSONDecodeError:
+                            stream_error.write("Error processing json object. Ignoring the following lines (starting at line " 
+                                + str(current_batch_start_line) + "):\n\n")
+                            stream_error.write(processed_buffer + "\n\n")
+                            processed_buffer = ""
+                            fail_batch_counter += 1
+
+                elif depth > 0:
+                    processed_buffer += c
+                else:
+                    stream_output.write(c)
+
+                # flipping quotes status (and don't forget to exlude escaped quotes!)
+                if c == '"' and prev_c != '\\':
+                    inside_quotes = not inside_quotes
+                
+                # setting previous c. only exception if a double backslash occurs ignoring it.
+                # Because that breaks our escaped character detection
+                prev_c = c if not (c == '\\' and prev_c == '\\') else ''
+        
+        stream_error.write("\n\nReached EOF. #Processed objects: " + str(success_batch_counter) + ", #failed objects: " + str(fail_batch_counter) + "\n\n")
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+
+    args = sys.argv[1:]
+
+    if len(args) == 0:
+        print("missing arguments")
+        sys.exit(-1)
+    
+    reg_tuples = []
+    while len(args) > 0:
+        reg_tuples.append(regex_tuple.create_from_string(args[0]))
+        args = args[1:]
+    
+    streamer = json_streamer(None, reg_tuples)
+    streamer.main_stream()
+