How to limit results across multiple JSON documents, without reading every document?

[VictorEngmarkHexagon]

I'm trying to get the first handful of results of an expression across multiple JSON documents output by an API. That is, the API prints a full JSON document for each response, and I want to run a query which stops after selecting the first N entries, independent of which JSON document they all appeared in.

To put this in more concrete terms, I'm trying to get only the first 10 jobs from glab api --paginate /projects/1234567890/jobs | jq '.[] | select(.name == "my-job-name")'.

What I've tried so far:

• limit(N; EXPR) applies to each JSON document, so it won't apply a global limit.
• --slurp also reads the entire set of JSON documents before applying the filter.

[wader]

Maybe something like this?

# select the 3 first even numbers
$ echo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | jq -n 'limit(3; inputs | select(. % 2 == 0))'
2
4
6