Everyone here mentions jq but no one mentions "fx". It's an awesome cli app to browse json. It can modify json too, but I think jq has shorter DSL. If you want

Everyone here mentions jq but no one mentions "fx". It's an awesome cli app to browse json. It can modify json too, but I think jq has shorter DSL. If you want to browse or navigate through nested json, this is the best tool I know. I wouldn't use GUI for this simply because piping data and mouseless env are more convenient to me. These are my other use cases: - validation & auto fixing: fix-busted-json (python) - tabular view : visidata (vd) can do this directly on json files. it has tons of other features like histogram, charts, sort, filter, edit, etc - summarizing and querying: duckdb. Example: select sum(price), count(*) from 'orders.json' - conversion: json2csv, it works both way - diff: simply diff, but sometimes jq for ordering keys is required