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Oh man. I recently threw together a "j2p" script to make converting between json and python dicts simpler, and combining it with pbcopy/pbpaste will make it so much better: #!/usr/bin/env python3 import sys import json print(json.load(sys.stdin))
Or directly from the commandline: pbcopy | python -c 'import sys; import json; print(json.load(sys.stdin))' | pbpaste
The Python json library is callable as a module:
pbcopy | python -m json.tool | pbpaste
$ python -m json.tool --help
usage: python -m json.tool [-h] [--sort-keys] [--no-ensure-ascii] [--json-lines] [--indent INDENT | --tab | --no-indent | --compact] [infile] [outfile]
A simple command line interface for json module to validate and pretty-print JSON objects.
positional arguments:
infile a JSON file to be validated or pretty-printed
outfile write the output of infile to outfile
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--sort-keys sort the output of dictionaries alphabetically by key
--no-ensure-ascii disable escaping of non-ASCII characters
--json-lines parse input using the JSON Lines format. Use with --no-indent or --compact to produce valid JSON Lines output.
--indent INDENT separate items with newlines and use this number of spaces for indentation
--tab separate items with newlines and use tabs for indentation
--no-indent separate items with spaces rather than newlines
--compact suppress all whitespace separation (most compact)