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Commands tagged json

Terminal - Commands tagged json - 17 results

cp data.{json,yaml}

2013-04-25 19:21:03

User: anarcat

Functions: cp

Tags: json yaml

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Convert JSON to YAML

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mv data.{json,yaml}

2013-04-25 07:47:32

User: bunam

Functions: mv

Tags: json yaml

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Convert JSON to YAML

since Mozai said that JSON is a subset of YAML ;)

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cat data.json >data.yml

2013-04-25 04:09:58

User: Mozai

Functions: cat

Tags: json yaml

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Convert JSON to YAML

Valid JSON is a subset of YAML; no transformation is necessary; however, YAML has many syntax features that are not valid JSON, so you can't do the reverse as easily.

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ruby -ryaml -rjson -e 'puts YAML.dump(JSON.parse(STDIN.read))' < file.json > file.yaml

2013-04-24 07:20:37

User: wejn

Tags: json ruby yaml

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Convert JSON to YAML

python -c 'import sys, yaml, json; yaml.dump(json.load(sys.stdin), sys.stdout, default_flow_style=False)' < file.json > file.yaml

2013-04-24 00:31:39

User: tebeka

Functions: python

Tags: python json yaml

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Convert JSON to YAML

Convert JSON to YAML.

Note that you'll need to have PyYaml installed.

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python -c 'import sys, yaml, json; json.dump(yaml.load(sys.stdin), sys.stdout, indent=4)' < file.yaml > file.json

2013-04-24 00:28:55

User: tebeka

Functions: python

Tags: python json yaml

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Convert YAML to JSON

Converts YAML file to JSON.

Note that you'll need to install PyYAML. Also some YAML data types (like dates) are not supported by JSON).

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alias pp='python -mjson.tool | pygmentize -l javascript'

2012-10-16 13:55:38

User: wires

Functions: alias

Tags: curl python json pygmentize prettify colorize

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Colorized JSON pretty printing

Uses pygmentize and python to create indented and colorized JSON output

ash prod<tab>

2012-05-12 19:51:02

User: c3w

Tags: ssh screen osx json ruby

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OSX Terminal helper with tab completion, ssh tunneling, and now screen re-attach

http://github.com/c3w/ash

. a Ruby SSH helper script

. reads a JSON config file to read host, FQDN, user, port, tunnel options

. changes OSX Terminal profiles based on host 'type'

USAGE:

put 'ash' ruby script in your PATH

modify and copy ashrc-dist to ~/.ashrc

configure OSX Terminal profiles, such as "webserver", "development", etc

run "ash myhostname" and away you go!

v.2 will re-attach to a 'screen' named in your ~/.ashrc

js -e 'JSON.stringify({hello:"world"})'

2012-04-11 13:09:27

User: kev

Tags: json

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convert javascript DICT to JSON

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curl -s http://geoiplookup.wikimedia.org/ | python3 -c 'import sys, json, string, webbrowser; webbrowser.open(string.Template("http://maps.google.com/maps?q=$lat,$lon").substitute(json.loads(sys.stdin.read().split("=")[-1])))'

2011-11-10 01:25:30

User: kev

Tags: json

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where am I in google map?

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wget -qO - "http://www.google.com/dictionary/json?callback=dict_api.callbacks.id100&q=steering+wheel&sl=en&tl=en&restrict=pr,de&client=te" | sed 's/dict_api\.callbacks.id100.//' | sed 's/,200,null)//'

2011-03-08 15:00:39

User: sairon

Functions: sed wget

Tags: json google google api dictionary

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Google dictionary of word definitions

wget -qO - "http://www.google.com/dictionary/json?callback=dict_api.callbacks.id100&q=steering+wheel&sl=en&tl=en&restrict=pr,de&client=te"

this does the actual google dictionary query, returns a JSON string encapsulated in some fancy tag

sed 's/dict_api\.callbacks.id100.//'

here we remove the tag beginning

sed 's/,200,null)//'

and here the tag end

There are also some special characters which could cause problems with some JSON parsers, so if you get some errors, this is probably the case (sed is your friend).

I laso like to trim the "webDefinitions" part, because it (sometimes) contains misleading information.

sed 's/\,\"webDefinitions.*//'

(but remember to append a "}" at the end, because the JSON string will be invalid)

The output also contains links to mp3 files with pronounciation.

As of now, this is only usable in the English language. If you choose other than English, you will only get webDefinitions (which are crap).

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wget -q -U "Mozilla/5.0" --post-file speech.flac --header="Content-Type: audio/x-flac; rate=16000" -O - "http://www.google.com/speech-api/v1/recognize?lang=en-us&client=chromium"

2011-03-08 13:39:01

User: sairon

Functions: wget

Tags: audio json google api google api speech

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Google voice recognition "API"

The FLAC audio must be encoded at 16000Hz sampling rate (SoX is your friend).

Outputs a short JSON string, the actual speech is in the hypotheses->utterance, the accuracy is stored in hypotheses->confidence (ranging from 0 to 1).

Google also accepts audio in some special speex format (audio/x-speex-with-header-byte), which is much smaller in comparison with losless FLAC, but I haven't been able to encode such a sample.

The command is too big to fit here. :( Look at the description for the command, in readable form! :)

2011-01-05 02:45:28

User: hunterm

Functions: at command

Tags: sed tail wget HEAD tr json google api search

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Search Google from the command line and return the first result.

Yep, now you can finally google from the command line!

Here's a readable version "for your pleasure"(c):

google() { # search the web using google from the commandline # syntax: google google query=$(echo "$*" | sed "s:%:%25:g;s:&:%26:g;s:+:%2b:g;s:;:%3b:g;s: :+:g") data=$(wget -qO - "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q=$query")

title=$(echo "$data" | tr '}' '\n' | sed "s/.*,\"titleNoFormatting//;s/\":\"//;s/\",.*//;s/\\u0026/'/g;s/\\\//g;s/#39\;//g;s/'amp;/\&/g" | head -1)

url="$(echo "$data" | tr '}' '\n' | sed 's/.*"url":"//;s/".*//' | head -1)" echo "${title}: ${url} | http://www.google.com/search?q=${query}" }

Enjoy :)

curl -s "http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/json?count=5" | python -m json.tool | less -R

This is sample output - yours may be different.

[
    {
        "d": "22 Useful Online Chart & Graph Generators | Tools", 
        "dt": "2010-03-24T00:00:00Z", 
        "t": [
            "charts", 
            "tools", 
            "chart", 
            "generator", 
            "graph", 
            "online", 
            "graphs", 
            "web", 
            "design", 
            "webdesign"
        ], 
        "u": "http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/22-useful-chart-graph-diagram-generators/"
    }, 
    {
        "d": "Official Google Data APIs Blog: Bringing OpenID and OAuth Together", 
        "dt": "2010-03-24T00:00:00Z", 
        "t": [
            "openid", 
            "oauth", 
            "google", 
            "identity", 
            "security", 
            "authentication", 
            "api", 
            "plaxo", 
            "protocol", 
            "data"
        ], 
        "u": "http://googledataapis.blogspot.com/2009/01/bringing-openid-and-oauth-together.html"
    }, 
    {
        "d": "Great Girl Manipulations by Digital Artist Michael O. | Abduzeedo - design inspiration and tutorials", 
        "dt": "2010-03-24T00:00:00Z", 
        "t": [
            "photoshop", 
            "art", 
            "photography", 
            "inspiration", 
            "design", 
            "photos", 
            "women", 
            "blog", 
            "awesome", 
            "cool"
        ], 
        "u": "http://abduzeedo.com/great-girl-manipulations-digital-artist-michael-o"
    }, 
    {
        "d": "Nightline Face-Off - ABC News", 
        "dt": "2010-03-24T00:00:00Z", 
        "t": [
            "debate", 
            "satan", 
            "theology", 
            "video", 
            "driscoll", 
            "news", 
            "education", 
            "religion", 
            "faceoff", 
            "television"
        ], 
        "u": "http://www.abcnews.go.com/Nightline/FaceOff/"
    }, 
    {
        "d": "How Twitter and Facebook Make Us More Productive | Magazine", 
        "dt": "2010-03-24T00:00:00Z", 
        "t": [
            "twitter", 
            "facebook", 
            "productivity", 
            "socialmedia", 
            "creativity", 
            "wired", 
            "research", 
            "social", 
            "socialnetworking", 
            "work"
        ], 
        "u": "http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/st_essay_distraction/"
    }
]

2010-03-24 09:15:12

User: keimlink

Functions: less python

Tags: curl http python json validation

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JSON processing with Python

Validates and pretty-prints the content fetched from the URL.

perl -lne 'print for /url":"\K[^"]+/g' $(ls -t ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/sessionstore.js | sed q)

2009-12-14 00:51:54

User: sputnick

Functions: ls perl sed

Tags: perl firefox regex json substitution

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Extract all urls from last firefox sessionstore used in a portable way.

If you want all the URLs from all the sessions, you can use :

perl -lne 'print for /url":"\K[^"]+/g' ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/sessionstore.js

Thanks to tybalt89 ( idea of the "for" statement ).

For perl purists, there's JSON and File::Slurp modules, buts that's not installed by default.

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curl -s "http://services.digg.com/stories?link=$NEWSURL&appkey=http://www.whatever.com&type=json" | python -m simplejson.tool | grep diggs

2009-08-24 08:49:20

User: jyro

Functions: grep python

Tags: curl python json digg

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Get number of diggs for a news URL

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echo '{"json":"obj"}' | python -m simplejson.tool

2009-05-10 13:58:05

User: azeey

Functions: echo python

Tags: python json

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Validate and pretty-print JSON expressions.

You can use a site like http://www.jsonlint.com/ or use the command line to validate your long and complex json data. This is part of the simplejson package for python http://undefined.org/python/#simplejson.

Wrong json expression example:

echo '{ 1.2:3.4}' | python -m simplejson.tool

Expecting property name: line 1 column 2 (char 2)