Hi @juanicobsider ,

I think that syntax is not fully supported yet in pyspark. As a workaround you can use expr like below:

from pyspark.sql import Row
from pyspark.sql.functions import parse_json,col, expr

json_string = '{"title":"example", "animal": "test"}'
df = spark.createDataFrame([
    Row(json_col=json_string)
    ]
)

df = (
    df.select(
        parse_json(
            col("json_col")  ).alias("json_col")
    )      
)

display(df.select(expr("json_col:animal")))