jsontools

Handy command line tools for dealing with json data.

To use it, add jsontools to the plugins array in your zshrc file:

plugins=(... jsontools)

Usage

Usage is simple... just take your json data and pipe it into the appropriate jsontool:

pp_json: pretty prints json.
is_json: returns true if valid json; false otherwise.
urlencode_json: returns a url encoded string for the given json.
urldecode_json: returns decoded json for the given url encoded string.

Examples

pp_json:

# curl json data and pretty print the results
curl https://coderwall.com/bobwilliams.json | pp_json

is_json:

# pretty print the contents of an existing json file
less data.json | is_json

urlencode_json:

# json data directly from the command line
echo '{"b":2, "a":1}' | urlencode_json

urldecode_json:

# url encoded string to decode
echo '%7B%22b%22:2,%20%22a%22:1%7D%0A' | urldecode_json