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Easy CLI JSON Formatting

33 points by sublimino 14y ago

bryanlarsen 14y ago
Couple dozen other ways to do it: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/352098/how-to-pretty-print-json-script/5006476 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/352098/how-to-pretty-prin...
exhuma 14y ago
I've done something similar a while back. A simple "works-for-me" package. Feel free to try it out: https://github.com/exhuma/braindump/tree/master/jsonformat https://github.com/exhuma/braindump/tree/master/jsonformat
wooptoo 14y ago
Or with jsonlist in NodeJS.
kmfrk 14y ago
Here is Paul Irish's .function dotfile solution: https://github.com/paulirish/dotfiles/blob/master/.functions#L55 https://github.com/paulirish/dotfiles/blob/master/.functions.... Really recommend setting up his dotfiles. After you back up your dotfiles, you can install his (which overwrites yours) just by writing git clone https://github.com/paulirish/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && ./sync.sh
Argorak 14y ago
I use jazor and coderay for that: gem install jazor coderay curl $SOMETHING | jazor | coderay -json
DougBTX 14y ago
This is another good one for formatting / filtering json: http://stedolan.github.com/jq/ http://stedolan.github.com/jq/
cobralibre 14y ago
A problem with piping curl output through "python -mjson.tool" is that you can't include the response headers, which is sometimes useful. (This was enough of a problem for me that I wrote a simple curl replacement in Python so I could have pretty-printed JSON or XML and response headers, or send the response directly to a Python REPL console as an object: https://github.com/cobralibre/hotpotato https://github.com/cobralibre/hotpotato )
- js2 14y ago
  Emit the headers to stderr? curl -v -s "$url" | python -mjson.tool curl -D /dev/stderr -s "$url" | python -mjson.tool
tedchs 14y ago
Here is the bash alias I have been using for CLI JSON formatting, and as a bonus, my random password generator: alias jsonpp='ruby -r json -e '\''puts JSON.pretty_generate(JSON.parse(STDIN.read))'\''' alias md5pass='dd if=/dev/random bs=100 count=1 2>/dev/null | md5'
acdha 14y ago
httpie is a nice replacement for curl which, among other things, has built-in formatting so you can get pretty JSON / XML responses without giving up your ability to do things like displaying response headers: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie https://github.com/jkbr/httpie

33 points by sublimino 14y ago

Couple dozen other ways to do it: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/352098/how-to-pretty-print-json-script/5006476 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/352098/how-to-pretty-prin...

exhuma 14y ago

I've done something similar a while back. A simple "works-for-me" package. Feel free to try it out: https://github.com/exhuma/braindump/tree/master/jsonformat https://github.com/exhuma/braindump/tree/master/jsonformat

wooptoo 14y ago

Or with jsonlist in NodeJS.

kmfrk 14y ago

Here is Paul Irish's .function dotfile solution: https://github.com/paulirish/dotfiles/blob/master/.functions#L55 https://github.com/paulirish/dotfiles/blob/master/.functions.... Really recommend setting up his dotfiles. After you back up your dotfiles, you can install his (which overwrites yours) just by writing git clone https://github.com/paulirish/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && ./sync.sh

Argorak 14y ago

I use jazor and coderay for that: gem install jazor coderay curl $SOMETHING | jazor | coderay -json

DougBTX 14y ago

This is another good one for formatting / filtering json: http://stedolan.github.com/jq/ http://stedolan.github.com/jq/

cobralibre 14y ago

A problem with piping curl output through "python -mjson.tool" is that you can't include the response headers, which is sometimes useful. (This was enough of a problem for me that I wrote a simple curl replacement in Python so I could have pretty-printed JSON or XML and response headers, or send the response directly to a Python REPL console as an object: https://github.com/cobralibre/hotpotato https://github.com/cobralibre/hotpotato )

js2 14y ago
Emit the headers to stderr? curl -v -s "$url" | python -mjson.tool curl -D /dev/stderr -s "$url" | python -mjson.tool

tedchs 14y ago

Here is the bash alias I have been using for CLI JSON formatting, and as a bonus, my random password generator: alias jsonpp='ruby -r json -e '\''puts JSON.pretty_generate(JSON.parse(STDIN.read))'\''' alias md5pass='dd if=/dev/random bs=100 count=1 2>/dev/null | md5'

acdha 14y ago

httpie is a nice replacement for curl which, among other things, has built-in formatting so you can get pretty JSON / XML responses without giving up your ability to do things like displaying response headers: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie https://github.com/jkbr/httpie