jsonv.sh

A Bash command line tool for converting JSON to CSV

Installation

Run the following command to install jsonv:

$ curl -Ls https://raw.github.com/archan937/jsonv.sh/master/install.sh | bash

To uninstall, run this command:

$ curl -Ls https://raw.github.com/archan937/jsonv.sh/master/uninstall.sh | bash

Note: You also need to install gawk.

Usage

Call jsonv and pass the paths of the values used for the CSV columns (comma separated). Optionally, you can pass a prefix for the paths as a second argument.

Simple JSON

Parsing examples/simple.json (3 objects) without a path prefix:

$ curl -Ls https://raw.github.com/archan937/jsonv.sh/master/examples/simple.json | jsonv id,name,age
1,"Dagny Taggart",39
8,"Francisco D'Anconia",40
12,"Hank Rearden (a.k.a \"The Tank\")",46

Complex JSON

Parsing examples/complex-1.json (1008 objects, file size 764KB) with a path prefix:

$ curl -Ls https://raw.github.com/archan937/jsonv.sh/master/examples/complex-1.json | jsonv person.id,person.name,person.gender,person.balance,person.age,person.company response.data
1,"Anastasia Goodwin","female","$2,623.00",20,"Equitax"
2,"Peters Watson","male","$1,606.00",29,"Blurrybus"
3,"Shirley Gates","female","$3,735.00",25,"Omatom"
4,"Mcgowan Terry","male","$3,121.00",25,"Austech"
5,"Melody Cote","female","$1,519.00",25,"Matrixity"
...

Parsing examples/complex-2.json (4734 objects, file size 3.2MB) with a path prefix:

$ curl -Ls https://raw.github.com/archan937/jsonv.sh/master/examples/complex-2.json | jsonv id,name,gender,balance,age,company,address,phone,email,picture,registered response.data
1,"Newton Bush","male","$1,653.00",27,"Xanide","710 Corbin Place, Vivian, Mississippi, 6954","+1 (916) 520-2940","[email protected]","http://placehold.it/32x32","1998-02-17T17:00:12 -01:00"
2,"Ratliff Workman","male","$2,941.00",39,"Bitendrex","680 Menahan Street, Matheny, North Dakota, 3316","+1 (997) 409-2099","[email protected]","http://placehold.it/32x32","1996-02-02T13:26:48 -01:00"
3,"Hawkins Jacobs","male","$1,584.00",40,"Marqet","349 Joralemon Street, Mansfield, California, 8655","+1 (831) 508-2216","[email protected]","http://placehold.it/32x32","2012-07-23T15:13:43 -02:00"
4,"Whitfield Maldonado","male","$2,519.00",34,"[email protected]","966 Moffat Street, Wanamie, Indiana, 3006","+1 (940) 554-2482","[email protected]@tribalog.com","http://placehold.it/32x32","2002-11-06T13:40:49 -01:00"
5,"Wise Phelps","male","$1,322.00",23,"Temorak","116 Matthews Court, Orin, Kentucky, 2196","+1 (967) 577-3292","[email protected]","http://placehold.it/32x32","1997-11-20T21:58:48 -01:00"
...

Trying it out locally

Check out this repository first and run the following command:

$ cat examples/complex-3.json | ./jsonv id,name,gender,balance,age,company,address,phone,email,picture,registered response.data
1,"Pearlie Hodge","female","$1,347.00",36,"Zappix","371 Abbey Court, Leola, Iowa, 6919","+1 (966) 515-2796","[email protected]","http://placehold.it/32x32","2004-05-18T01:48:01 -02:00"
2,"Tessa Saunders","female","$1,398.00",24,"Zounds","399 Provost Street, Ironton, Alaska, 4909","+1 (807) 501-3914","[email protected]","http://placehold.it/32x32","2001-11-27T14:20:43 -01:00"
3,"Clarissa Hawkins","female","$2,974.00",33,"Recrisys","566 Drew Street, Elliston, Maine, 9520","+1 (867) 510-2236","[email protected]","http://placehold.it/32x32","2002-09-12T12:01:35 -02:00"
4,"Lauren Sexton","female","$2,282.00",26,"Lunchpad","461 Lloyd Street, Deercroft, Arkansas, 9022","+1 (937) 509-3538","[email protected]","http://placehold.it/32x32","1998-07-01T19:13:55 -02:00"
5,"Hutchinson Ayers","male","$1,697.00",20,"Mangelica","129 Tabor Court, Freeburn, North Dakota, 2921","+1 (823) 542-2366","[email protected]","http://placehold.it/32x32","1997-11-20T04:39:49 -01:00"
...

In this example, examples/complex-3.json contains 19828 objects (file size 13.6MB) and is parsed in about 20 seconds.

Log file

When using jsonv, it writes log messages to log file jsonv.log located within the same directory as jsonv itself.

=====================
[2013-12-07 04:10:29] Writing JSON file
[2013-12-07 04:10:31] Writing tokens file
[2013-12-07 04:10:32] Deriving keys
[2013-12-07 04:10:32] Deriving prefix
[2013-12-07 04:10:32] Counting entries
[2013-12-07 04:10:32] Writing map file
[2013-12-07 04:10:32] Deriving line format
[2013-12-07 04:10:32] Compiling CSV output
[2013-12-07 04:10:32] Done.
=====================

Credits

jsonv heavily makes use of JSON.awk created by Stepk (step-):

https://github.com/step-/JSON.awk

Thanks Dominic Tarr (@dominictarr) for creating JSON.sh on which JSON.awk is based on:

https://github.com/dominictarr/JSON.sh

Thanks GNU Project (http://www.gnu.org) for creating gawk:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk

License

Copyright (c) 2013 Paul Engel, released under the MIT license

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.