A CLI to pretty-data package with file and stdin support
npm install pretty-data-clipretty-data-cli is a command-line interface (CLI) to
[pretty-data][pretty-data-url] with file and stdin support. As such, it
supports pretty printing of JSON, XML, CSS and SQL.
You can also minify (-m switch) instead of pretty print (also a pretty-data feature).
It uses [mime][mime-url] to detect file types based on file extensions.
If no explicit type was given and no file extension was recognizable, it will fail.
When reading from stdin, the type option is required.
Below is the command-line usage help:
``
usage: pretty
files Read from FILE(s). Optional.
options:
-t TYPE, --type TYPE Data TYPE. If not present, will guess from file extension. Required if no FILE(s) given.
-m, --minify Minify instead of pretty print.
-v, --version Show version.
`
Page through the in*human-readable GData API
`
curl -s "https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/top_rated" | pretty -t xml | less
PS: I think almost all GData APIs have a [prettyprint][pretty-print-param-url] parameter available
* Read Twitter's global trends
`
curl -s "http://api.twitter.com/1/trends/1.json" | pretty -t json
[pretty-data-url]: https://github.com/vkiryukhin/pretty-data
[mime-url]: https://github.com/bentomas/node-mime
[pretty-print-param-url]: https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol#prettyprintsp