jless Alternatives

jless is described as 'Will pretty print your JSON and apply syntax highlighting. Use it when exploring external APIs, or debugging request payloads' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to jless for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and Android apps. The best jless alternative is jq, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like jless are JSON Crack, json-log-viewer, yq and jsonbolt.

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  1. jq icon
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    jq is like sed for JSON data - you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with text.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. JSON Crack icon
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    JSON Crack is a versatile online tool designed to visualize and analyze various data formats, including JSON, YAML, CSV, XML and more. It transforms complex data into intuitive graphs and tree views, making it ideal for developers.

    53 JSON Crack alternatives

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    • Online
    • Visual Studio Code
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  3. Powerful terminal based viewer for JSON logs using ncurses.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  4. yq icon
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    yq is a portable command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV, TOML, HCL and properties processor

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
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  5. jsonbolt icon
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    A hardware-accelerated JSON viewer, built for people who dig through folders full of huge payloads, logs, and data dumps every day.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  6. fx icon
     5 likes

    Command-line JSON processing tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Node.JS
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  7. sq icon
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    sq is a free/libre open-source data wrangling swiss-army knife to inspect, query, join, import, and export data. You could think of sq as jq for databases and documents, facilitating one-liners like: sq '@postgres_db | .actor | .first_name, .last_name | .[0:5]'

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Homebrew
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
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  8.  1 like

    The query language Unquery is a fast, powerful and flexible language for querying structured documents. It was originally developed as the query language for XCiteDB, a fast and reliable noSQL database for structured documents, supporting XML, JSON, and other features such as...

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    • Linux
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  9. jello icon
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    jello is a command line tool that filters JSON data using pure python syntax.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. JSONedit icon
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    JSON editor for Windows and Wine with tree, list and text views.

    36 JSONedit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11.  3 likes

    JSON Editor is a web-based tool to create and view Json. Its modern UI can create,simple and complex json easily. UI Based Json Editor, Online Json Editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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