August 25th, 2011 at 10:09PM

Formatting JSON from command line

So when working on REST services that return JSON, I often hit them from command line using curl. If the JSON message that is returned is rather large, it can be a pain to read. Python provides a nice little tool though for formatting it. You can pipe a JSON message returned from a curl to it like so:
curl http://my.rest.service.org | python -mjson.tool | less

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