Ref: https://gist.github.com/brokaw/95ade1358954cd97d0f2c8e992e14b08

Making JSON Output More Readable with BBEdit

1. Close bbedit and Place pretty-json.sh, compact-json.sh files in ~/Library/Application\ Support/BBEdit/Text\ Filters

   # NOTE: jq is faster than python so skipping python based solution here
   mv ~/Desktop/pretty-json.sh ~/Library/Application\ Support/BBEdit/Text\ Filters
   mv ~/Desktop/compact-json.sh ~/Library/Application\ Support/BBEdit/Text\ Filters 
   

2. Restart bbedit.
3. If you face issue in above file refer

• If you want to format entire file then go to option Text -> Apply Text Filter -> pretty-json
• If you want to format only portion of file, then select portion of texts and then select option Text -> Apply Text Filter -> pretty-json

jq summary:

pretty-json

echo '{"array":[1,2,3],"boolean":true,"color":"gold","null":null,"number":123,"object":{"a":"b","c":"d"},"string":"Hello World"}' | jq

# output
{
  "array": [
    1,
    2,
    3
  ],
  "boolean": true,
  "color": "gold",
  "null": null,
  "number": 123,
  "object": {
    "a": "b",
    "c": "d"
  },
  "string": "Hello World"
}

compact json

echo '{
  "array": [
    1,
    2,
    3
  ],
  "boolean": true,
  "color": "gold",
  "null": null,
  "number": 123,
  "object": {
    "a": "b",
    "c": "d"
  },
  "string": "Hello World"
}' | jq -c

# output
{"array":[1,2,3],"boolean":true,"color":"gold","null":null,"number":123,"object":{"a":"b","c":"d"},"string":"Hello World"}