A Bash command line tool for converting JSON to CSV
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.
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.
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
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","newtonbush@xanide.com","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","ratliffworkman@bitendrex.com","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","hawkinsjacobs@marqet.com","http://placehold.it/32x32","2012-07-23T15:13:43 -02:00"
4,"Whitfield Maldonado","male","$2,519.00",34,"Tri@Tribalog","966 Moffat Street, Wanamie, Indiana, 3006","+1 (940) 554-2482","whitfieldmaldonado@tri@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","wisephelps@temorak.com","http://placehold.it/32x32","1997-11-20T21:58:48 -01:00"
...
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","pearliehodge@zappix.com","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","tessasaunders@zounds.com","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","clarissahawkins@recrisys.com","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","laurensexton@lunchpad.com","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","hutchinsonayers@mangelica.com","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.
When using jsonv, it writes log messages to log file jsonv.log located within the same directory as jsonv itself.
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[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.
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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
Copyright (c) 2013 Paul Engel, released under the MIT license
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