Commandline JSON Pretty Print everywhere
You can pretty print (and validate) json on nearly every *nix-like (unix, linux, osx,…) system, since most of them have Python (2.6+ required) installed.
echo '{"test1": 1, "test2": "win"}' | python -m json.toolwill be returned as:
{
"test1": 1,
"test2": "win"
}And yep, you guessed it, this can easily be integrated with your favorite editor of choice, as long as it supports passing data to a shell command.
Pretty printing a JSON file with VIM and Python:
:%!python -m json.toolRelated protips:
Written by Luis Nell
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If the machine has pygments installed (not as likely, but easy to install) you can pipe the json for color output as well python -mjson.tool | pygmentize -l javascript.
{"comment": "Pretty Helpful"}
Here's a NodeJS version:
echo '{"foo":"bar"}' | jsonYou need to install the jsontool module (npm install -g jsontool)
You insipred me to attempt to repeat this in NodeJS without 3rd party modules. Turned out it's shorter in Python due to json.tool moduel existence :)
Ruby version: ruby -rjson -e 'puts JSON.pretty_generate(JSON.load($<))'
@dpashkevich Hey! Great job :) Pretty short for not using any third party module!
@manveru ah that's a nice one too :)
I usually use this little wrapper: https://github.com/igorgue/pjson which adds pretty colors.
I wish I could get the pretty color version when viewing JSON files in ST2. You'd think it was possible seeing as ST2 is heavily connected to Python
I use this neat little tool: www.jsonprettyprint.net. Does the job for me.
Very helpful, specifically the VIM shortcut. I've reblogged this post along with additional JSON pretty printing tools at http://techzog.com/development/json-and-xml-in-human-readable-form/
I like Stephen Dolan's jq for working with JSON on the CLI: http://stedolan.github.io/jq
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