Pretty-Printing JSON with Python's JSON Tool
Today's quick tip is something that was widely retweeted after my "Debugging HTTP" talk at the ever-fabulous WhiskyWeb conference last weekend. When working with JSON on the commandline, here's a quick tip for showing the JSON in a nicer format:
curl http://api.joind.in | python -mjson.tool
You need python installed, but the JSON extension is probably included, and that's all you need for this tool. The result is something like:
You can also use this approach to present JSON data that has been captured to another file, for example, it's a handy trick that I use often when developing something with JSON as a data format.
I've been using HTTPie (https://github.com/jkbr/httpie) for a while, and it uses either the json extension or pygments to format and colorize JSON output. Having the output formatted is tremendously useful for readability and debugging!
That's a great tip, thanks for adding it :)
I've been using http://www.jsonprettyprint.net if I just needed something quick when playing around with different API results.
Oh that looks useful, thanks for sharing!