Display curl output in readable JSON format in Unix shell script

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In my Unix shell script  when I execute a curl command  the result will be displayed as below which I am redirecting to file     type   Show   id   123   title   name   description   Funny   channelTitle   ifood tv   lastUpdateTimestamp   2014-04-20T20 34 59   numOfVideos   15     But  I want this output to put in the readable JSON format like below in the file     type   Show    id   123    title   name    description   Funny    channelTitle   ifood tv    lastUpdateTimestamp   2014-04-20T20 34 59    numOfVideos   15     How do I format the output this way

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I am guessing that you want to prettify the JSON output  That could be achieved using python  curl http   localhost 8880 test json   python -mjson tool  gt  out json

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You can use the json node module  npm i -g json then simply append   json after curl  curl http   localhost 8880 test json   json

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A few solutions to choose from   json pp  command utility available in Linux systems for JSON decoding encoding  echo    quot type quot   quot Bar quot   quot id quot   quot 1 quot   quot title quot   quot Foo quot      json pp -json opt pretty canonical       quot id quot     quot 1 quot       quot title quot     quot Foo quot       quot type quot     quot Bar quot     You may want to keep the -json opt pretty canonical argument for predictable ordering    jq  lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor  It is written in portable C  and it has zero runtime dependencies   echo    quot type quot   quot Bar quot   quot id quot   quot 1 quot   quot title quot   quot Foo quot      jq          quot type quot    quot Bar quot      quot id quot    quot 1 quot      quot title quot    quot Foo quot     The simplest jq program is the expression    which takes the input and produces it unchanged as output  For additinal jq options check the manual  with python  echo    quot type quot   quot Bar quot   quot id quot   quot 1 quot   quot title quot   quot Foo quot      python -m json tool        quot id quot    quot 1 quot        quot title quot    quot Foo quot        quot type quot    quot Bar quot      with nodejs and bash  echo    quot type quot   quot Bar quot   quot id quot   quot 1 quot   quot title quot   quot Foo quot      node -e  quot console log  JSON stringify  JSON parse require  fs   readFileSync 0     0  1    quot      quot type quot    quot Bar quot     quot id quot    quot 1 quot     quot title quot    quot Foo quot

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With xidel  curl  lt     gt    xidel - -se   json   xidel can probably retrieve the JSON for you as well

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I found json reformat to be very handy  So I just did the following   curl http   127 0 0 1 5000 people api json   json reformat   that s it

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This is to add to of Gilles  Answer  There are many ways to get this done but personally I prefer something lightweight  easy to remember and universally available  e g  come with standard LTS installations of your preferred Linux flavor or easy to install  on common  nix systems     Here are the options in their preferred order     Python Json tool module   echo    foo    lorem    bar    ipsum      python -mjson tool      pros  almost available everywhere  cons  no color coding     jq  may require one time installation   echo    foo    lorem    bar    ipsum      jq      cons  needs to install jq  pros  color coding and versatile     json pp  available in Ubuntu 16 04 LTS   echo    foo    lorem    bar    ipsum      json pp     For Ruby users  gem install jsonpretty echo    foo    lorem    bar    ipsum      jsonpretty

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Motivation  You want to print prettify JSON response after curl command request   Solution   json pp - commandline tool that converts between some input and output formats  one of them is JSON   This program was copied from json xs and modified  The default input format is json and the default output format is json with pretty option   Synposis   json pp  -v   -f from format   -t to format   -json opt options to json1  options to json2           Formula   lt someCommand gt    json pp  Example    Request  curl -X https   jsonplaceholder typicode com todos 1   json pp    Response        completed    false      id    1      title     delectus aut autem       userId    1

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python -m json tool Curl http   127 0 0 1 5000 people api json   python -m json tool   can also help

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Check out curljson    pip install curljson   curljson -i  lt the-json-api-url gt

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