Jsonify

Jsonify is a fast and efficient command line tool for formatting and coloring JSON data. It takes JSON input and returns a clear, color-coded structure for easy reading. Ideal for developers and data analysts, jsonify is both blazingly fast and memory efficient.

Formatting example

Handing error example

Usage

By redirecting your output into jsonify you will get formatted and colored JSON structure

cat test.json | jsonify

You can combine jsonify with curl and read beautiful JSON structures in your command line

curl -s -X GET https://dummyjson.com/products/1 | jsonify

Installation

To be able to run jsofify you will need to do following steps

1. Get jsonify binary file
2. Add the file or its link into your shell $PATH. This step depeds on your shell
3. Make sure that jsonify is executable (chmod +x)

Get pre-built binary files

Download the pre-built binary file to your computer. You can find it in the section releases on GitHub.

Currently, binaries are pre-built for Mac architectures Mx silicons (aarch64-apple-darwin) and Intel (x86_64-apple-darwin)

Complie from source

If you want to compile jsonify from the source you will need installed Rust and then clone this repository. Once you will be done, go to the repository root and run following command

cargo build --release

Rust will compile jsonify from the source code. Generate executable binary file will be at location target/release/jsonify.

Contribute

You are welcomed to fork the project and create a branch for each new feature you wish to add. Ensure that you write necessary tests and run the current tests before making your pull request.

License: MIT

© 2023 Martin Voldrich This work is licensed under MIT license.