jsonpprint - a Python script to format JSON data nicely

This isn't rocket science but it might help someone else.

I often do testing of my various restful HTTP APIs on the command line with curl but often the format the server spits out is very compact and not easy to read. So I pipe it to a little script I've written. Used like this:

$ curl http://worklog/api/events.json?u=1234 | jsonpprint
{'events': [{'allDay': True,
            'end': 1290211200.0,
            'id': '4ce6a2096da6814e5b000000',
            'start': 1290211200.0,
            'title': '@DoneCal test sample'},
           {'allDay': True,
            'end': 1290729600.0,
            'id': '4ce6a22b6da6814e5b000001',
...

The code is really simple:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
from pprint import pprint
try:
   import anyjson
except ImportError:
   print >>sys.stderr, "TIP: pip install anyjson"
   raise

def run(*args):
   if args:
       content = file(args[0]).read()
   else:
       content = sys.stdin.read()
   struct = anyjson.deserialize(content)
   pprint(struct)
   return 0

if __name__ == '__main__':
   sys.exit(run(*sys.argv[1:]))

You can download it here Download the file and put it into ~/bin/ and run:

$ chmod +x jsonpprint