gson-viewer is an interactive command-line JSON viewer.

go get github.com/hlts2/gson-viewer

An interactive command-line JSON viewer demo.

To launch an interactive command-line JSON viewer from file.

gson-viewer -s {json file}

To launch an interactive command-line JSON viewer from pipe.

cat test.json | gson-viewer

The path is syntax such as created_at.date. And if you want to get the element of array, please put a number such as friends.[0].

{
    "friends": [
        {"name": "hlts2"},
        {"name": "hiroto"}
    ],
    "created_at": {
        "date": "2017-05-10 12:54:18",
        "timezone": "UTC"
    }
}

>>> friends.[1].name
// hiroto

The show command shows shaped JSON

>>> show

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