Pretty print JSON without jq using node

pretty-print-json.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

node -e 'var fs = require("fs"); process.stdin.resume(); process.stdin.setEncoding("utf8"); var data = ""; process.stdin.on("data", function(buf) { data += buf; }); process.stdin.on("end", function() { console.log(JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(data), null, 2)); });'

Add the snippet in your .bashrc

alias pjson='sh ~/.scripts/pretty-print-json.sh'

Try it out:

curl https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1 | tr -d '\n' | pjson