Pretty Print JSON in command line

Two simple ways to get your cURL commands to output JSON in a human friendly manner.

# Node.js prettyjson

First install prettyjson from npm:

npm install -g prettyjson

Now you should be able to pipe cURL output to it, like so:

curl <url> | prettyjson

# Python mjson

You may need to install mjson first:

pip install mjson

Now you should be able to pipe cURL output to it, like so:

curl <url> | python -mjson.tool

# Further resources

If you're interested in a more in-depth look on this subject, checkout Ben Woodward's post. Theres also a pretty active stack overflow thread about this.