Utility for pretty JSON output

Simple python utility for using in shell scripts.

Features

• Print colorized JSON
• Minimized and formatted output
• Output elements by keys and indexes
• Check JSON for correctness
• Automatically disabling color sequences, when prints to pipeline, file or other non-tty output

Examples

• test.json

{
  "arr": [
    123,
    "λάμβδα ラムダ lambda",
    [
      "1",
      "2"
    ]
  ],
  "test": "test"
}

• Colorized indented

printjson test.json

• Minimized monochrome

printjson -om test.json

Result:

{"test":"test","arr":[123,"λάμβδα ラムダ lambda",["1","2"]]}

• Print third entry of "arr" array, using "__" as delimiter

printjson -k 'arr__2' -d '__' test.json

Result:

[
  "1",
  "2"
]