Info

Formats a text stream as JSON. Offers additional functionality over "python -mjson.tool"

Examples

> echo '[ { "foo" : "bar", "hello" : 1 }]' | python formatjson.py --indent 2

	[
	  {
	    "foo": "bar", 
	    "hello": 1
	  }
	]

> curl http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/public_timeline.json | python formatjson.py

	[
	    {
	        "favorited": false, 
	        "in_reply_to_user_id": null, 
	        "contributors": null, 
	        "truncated": false, 
	        "text": "IT GETS REAL NASTY !!!", 
	        "created_at": "Tue Nov 22 19:51:11 +0000 2011", 
	        "retweeted": false, 
			...
		}
	]

> echo '{ "c" : 3, "b" : 2, "a" : 1 }' | python formatjson.py --sort-keys

	{
	    "a": 1, 
	    "b": 2, 
	    "c": 3
	}	

Arguments

-h, --help          show this help message and exit
-i level, --indent level
                    level of indentation (default 4)
-c separator, --item-separator separator
                    dictionary seperator (default ',')
-d separator, --dict-separator separator
                    dictionary seperator (default ':')
-s, --sort-keys     sorts output by key
-w, --strip-whitespace
                    remove whitespace from output (compact JSON)