json-tidy

Pretty prints JSON

Installation

First install Go.

If you just want to install the binary to your current directory and don't care about the source code, run

GOBIN=$(pwd) GOPATH=$(mktemp -d) go get github.com/carlmjohnson/json-tidy

Screenshots

$ json-tidy -h
Gets input files and URLs (defaults to stdin) and outputs tidy JSON.

Usage of json-tidy:

json-tidy [opts] <file|url|->...
  -html-safe
        Escape special characters for easy embedding in HTML
  -indent string
        Identation string (default "\t")
  -output file
        write tidy JSON to file (default stdout)
  -prefix string
        Prefix string

$ echo '{"a": 1, "b": [true, false]}' | json-tidy
{
        "a": 1,
        "b": [
                true,
                false
        ]
}