jsontool

jsontool is utility to fighting with JSON files using CLI

Current stable version

0.2.1

How to use it

cat data1.json data2.json | jsontool --sort-by='timestamp'

jsontool --color=always < data.json | less -R

More

% jsontool -h
usage: jsontool [-h] [-f SORT_BY] [-r] [-g GREP] [-v] [--sort-keys]
                [--indent INDENT] [--color {auto,always,never}]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -f SORT_BY, --sort-by SORT_BY
                        sort given list of JSONs by this field
  -r, --sort-reversed   sort in reverse order
  -g GREP, --grep GREP  filter list of JSONs using this rules (can be added
                        more then once)
  -v, --version         show version and exit
  --sort-keys           sort keys in printed JSONs (default: not sorted)
  --indent INDENT       indent JSONs with INDENT spaces
  --color {auto,always,never}
                        manipulate colorizing of JSONs (default: auto)

Argument to --grep option should be in format:
  field:value:modifier
Where:
- "field" must be in all JSONs.
- "value" is value to search
- "modifier" is optional, and say how to treat "value": allowed
  options are: s (string - default), b (boolean), i (integer), f (float)

Installation

jsontool should work on any platform where Python is available, it means Linux, Windows, MacOS X etc. There is no required dependencies, plain Python power :)

To install, simply use pip:

pip install jsontool

If you do not want to use pip tool, then go to GitHub releases, download newest release, unpack and put somewhere in PATH (ie. ~/bin or /usr/local/bin).

If You want to install newest unstable version, then just copy file to your PATH, for example:

curl https://raw.github.com/msztolcman/jsontool/master/jsontool.py > /usr/local/bin/jsontool

or:

wget https://raw.github.com/msztolcman/jsontool/master/jsontool.py -O /usr/local/bin/jsontool

Voila!

Authors

Marcin Sztolcman marcin@urzenia.net

Contact

If you like or dislike this software, please do not hesitate to tell me about this me via email (marcin@urzenia.net).

If you find bug or have an idea to enhance this tool, please use GitHub's issues.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Marcin Sztolcman

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

ChangeLog

v0.2.0

• renamed --field argument to --sort-by
• more formatting options (--sort-keys, --indent)
• allow to disable colorizing
• allow to not sort at all
• allow to sort reversed
• documentation and help added

v0.1.0

• initial version