analyse-json
CLI tool to analyse Newline Delimited (ND)JSON files and return useful metadata about the structure to help you understand the contents
USAGE:
analyse-json [OPTIONS] [FILE_PATH]
ARGS:
<FILE_PATH> File to process, expected to contain a single JSON object or Newline
Delimited (ND) JSON objects
OPTIONS:
--explode-arrays
Walk the elements of arrays treating arrays like a map of their enumerated elements?
(E.g. $.path.to.array[0], $.path.to.array[1], ...) Ignored if using `--inspect-arrays`
-g, --glob <GLOB>
Process all files identified by this glob pattern
--generate-completions <SHELL>
Output shell completions for the chosen shell to stdout [possible values: bash, elvish,
fish, powershell, zsh]
-h, --help
Print help information
--inspect-arrays
Walk the elements of arrays grouping elements paths together under `$.path.to.array[*]`?
Takes precedence over `--explode-arrays`
--jsonpath <JSONPATH>
JSONpath query to filter/limit the inspection to e.g. `'$.a_key.an_array[0]'`
--merge
Include combined results for all files when using glob
-n, --lines <LINES>
Limit inspection to the first n lines
--parallel
Use multi-threaded version of the processing
-q, --quiet
Silence error logging
-V, --version
Print version information
Installation
via cargo
Prerequisites
You need to have cargo installed https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/getting-started/installation.html
Install
cargo install analyse-json
Prebuild binaries
Prebuild binaries for some systems can be found on github