jsonpretty 📋#

JSON swiss army knife — format, validate, query, flatten, stats.

Commands#

bash

# Pretty-print (from file or stdin)
python3 scripts/jsonpretty.py data.json
echo '{"a":1}' | python3 scripts/jsonpretty.py

# Validate JSON
python3 scripts/jsonpretty.py --validate data.json

# Query with dot-notation
echo '{"user":{"name":"Rogue"}}' | python3 scripts/jsonpretty.py -q "user.name"

# Flatten nested JSON
cat data.json | python3 scripts/jsonpretty.py --flat

# Structure stats (key count, depth, types, size)
python3 scripts/jsonpretty.py --stats data.json

# Compact output (minify)
python3 scripts/jsonpretty.py --compact data.json

# Sort keys
python3 scripts/jsonpretty.py --sort data.json

Features#

• Pretty-print with 2-space indent (default)
• JSON validation with error messages
• Dot-notation querying (supports array indices: key[0].sub)
• Flatten nested objects to key.subkey = value pairs
• Structure statistics: key count, nesting depth, type distribution, byte size
• Compact/minify mode
• Sorted key output
• Reads from file or stdin