json-prettyprint

JSON PrettyPrint

The only reason for creating this gem was to provide me some tool that will allow me formatting and highlighting JSON API responses fetched using curl command.

The JSON PrettyPrint is a simple tool that let you format any json output (like one received from some API using curl). It will format the JSON response and apply syntax highlighting.

Installation

The best way to install this tool is to manually execute:

$ gem install json-prettyprint

You can also add it to the Gemfile if you want:

gem 'json-prettyprint'

Usage

The JSON PrettyPrint provides command line tool jj which can be piped to any other command like this:

$ curl https://github.com/michalorman.json | jj

If you, for some weird reason, want to use it in some code, you can generate pretty json like this:

require 'json-prettyprint'

json = STDIN.gets
pretty_json = JSON::PrettyPrint.prettify json