prettify JSON

To pretty print JSON output you can use the command line...

so any cURL request returning JSON can be piped to python:

curl http://somesite.com/cont/res/ | python -m json.tool

 or

 cat somefile.json / python -m json.tool

Comments

  1. david13 April 2014 at 21:16

    NB it won't display in the order it appears in the file...

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