diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3710363e..626d43b7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ All notable changes to eww will be listed here, starting at changes since versio
 - Fix wayland monitor names support (By: dragonnn)
 
 ### Features
+- Add jq `raw-output` support (By: RomanHargrave)
 - Update rust toolchain to 1.81.0 (By: w-lfchen)
 - Add `:fill-svg` and `:preserve-aspect-ratio` properties to images (By: hypernova7, w-lfchen)
 - Add `:truncate` property to labels, disabled by default (except in cases where truncation would be enabled in version `0.5.0` and before) (By: Rayzeq).
diff --git a/crates/simplexpr/src/eval.rs b/crates/simplexpr/src/eval.rs
index ecb644e7..c619da03 100644
--- a/crates/simplexpr/src/eval.rs
+++ b/crates/simplexpr/src/eval.rs
@@ -456,7 +456,9 @@ fn call_expr_function(name: &str, args: Vec<DynVal>) -> Result<DynVal, EvalError
             _ => Err(EvalError::WrongArgCount(name.to_string())),
         },
         "jq" => match args.as_slice() {
-            [json, code] => run_jaq_function(json.as_json_value()?, code.as_string()?)
+            [json, code] => run_jaq_function(json.as_json_value()?, code.as_string()?, "")
+                .map_err(|e| EvalError::Spanned(code.span(), Box::new(e))),
+            [json, code, args] => run_jaq_function(json.as_json_value()?, code.as_string()?, &args.as_string()?)
                 .map_err(|e| EvalError::Spanned(code.span(), Box::new(e))),
             _ => Err(EvalError::WrongArgCount(name.to_string())),
         },
@@ -506,16 +508,20 @@ fn prepare_jaq_filter(code: String) -> Result<Arc<jaq_interpret::Filter>, EvalEr
     Ok(Arc::new(filter))
 }
 
-fn run_jaq_function(json: serde_json::Value, code: String) -> Result<DynVal, EvalError> {
-    let filter: Arc<jaq_interpret::Filter> = prepare_jaq_filter(code)?;
-    let inputs = jaq_interpret::RcIter::new(std::iter::empty());
-    let out = filter
-        .run((jaq_interpret::Ctx::new([], &inputs), jaq_interpret::Val::from(json)))
-        .map(|x| x.map(Into::<serde_json::Value>::into))
-        .map(|x| x.map(|x| DynVal::from_string(serde_json::to_string(&x).unwrap())))
+fn run_jaq_function(json: serde_json::Value, code: String, args: &str) -> Result<DynVal, EvalError> {
+    use jaq_interpret::{Ctx, RcIter, Val};
+    prepare_jaq_filter(code)?
+        .run((Ctx::new([], &RcIter::new(std::iter::empty())), Val::from(json)))
+        .map(|r| r.map(Into::<serde_json::Value>::into))
+        .map(|x| {
+            x.map(|val| match (args, val) {
+                ("r", serde_json::Value::String(s)) => DynVal::from_string(s),
+                // invalid arguments are silently ignored
+                (_, v) => DynVal::from_string(serde_json::to_string(&v).unwrap()),
+            })
+        })
         .collect::<Result<_, _>>()
-        .map_err(|e| EvalError::JaqError(e.to_string()))?;
-    Ok(out)
+        .map_err(|e| EvalError::JaqError(e.to_string()))
 }
 
 #[cfg(test)]
@@ -576,5 +582,9 @@ mod tests {
         lazy_evaluation_or(r#"true || "null".test"#) => Ok(DynVal::from(true)),
         lazy_evaluation_elvis(r#""test"?: "null".test"#) => Ok(DynVal::from("test")),
         jq_basic_index(r#"jq("[7,8,9]", ".[0]")"#) => Ok(DynVal::from(7)),
+        jq_raw_arg(r#"jq("[ \"foo\" ]", ".[0]", "r")"#) => Ok(DynVal::from("foo")),
+        jq_empty_arg(r#"jq("[ \"foo\" ]", ".[0]", "")"#) => Ok(DynVal::from(r#""foo""#)),
+        jq_invalid_arg(r#"jq("[ \"foo\" ]", ".[0]", "hello")"#) => Ok(DynVal::from(r#""foo""#)),
+        jq_no_arg(r#"jq("[ \"foo\" ]", ".[0]")"#) => Ok(DynVal::from(r#""foo""#)),
     }
 }
diff --git a/docs/src/expression_language.md b/docs/src/expression_language.md
index 0fb51e6a..1850793d 100644
--- a/docs/src/expression_language.md
+++ b/docs/src/expression_language.md
@@ -44,14 +44,17 @@ Supported currently are the following features:
     - `degtorad(number)`: Converts a number from degrees to radians
     - `radtodeg(number)`: Converts a number from radians to degrees
     - `replace(string, regex, replacement)`: Replace matches of a given regex in a string
-	- `search(string, regex)`: Search for a given regex in a string (returns array)
-	- `matches(string, regex)`: check if a given string matches a given regex (returns bool)
-	- `captures(string, regex)`: Get the captures of a given regex in a string (returns array)
-	- `strlength(value)`: Gets the length of the string
+  - `search(string, regex)`: Search for a given regex in a string (returns array)
+  - `matches(string, regex)`: check if a given string matches a given regex (returns bool)
+  - `captures(string, regex)`: Get the captures of a given regex in a string (returns array)
+  - `strlength(value)`: Gets the length of the string
     - `substring(string, start, length)`: Return a substring of given length starting at the given index
-	- `arraylength(value)`: Gets the length of the array
-	- `objectlength(value)`: Gets the amount of entries in the object
-	- `jq(value, jq_filter_string)`: run a [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/) style command on a json value. (Uses [jaq](https://crates.io/crates/jaq) internally).
+  - `arraylength(value)`: Gets the length of the array
+  - `objectlength(value)`: Gets the amount of entries in the object
+  - `jq(value, jq_filter_string)`: run a [jq](https://jqlang.github.io/jq/manual/) style command on a json value. (Uses [jaq](https://crates.io/crates/jaq) internally).
+  - `jq(value, jq_filter_string, args)`: Emulate command line flags for jq, see [the docs](https://jqlang.github.io/jq/manual/#invoking-jq) on invoking jq for details. Invalid flags are silently ignored.
+    Currently supported flags:
+    - `"r"`: If the result is a string, it won't be formatted as a JSON string. The equivalent jq flag is `--raw-output`.
   - `get_env(string)`: Gets the specified enviroment variable
   - `formattime(unix_timestamp, format_str, timezone)`: Gets the time in a given format from UNIX timestamp.
      Check [chrono's documentation](https://docs.rs/chrono/latest/chrono/format/strftime/index.html) for more