Every once and awhile, theirs occasions that I have a giant glob of JSON data that I want to easily read it's data. Normally I opted to use http://jsonlint.com/. The problem is whenever I use http://jsonlint.com/, I always have to be sure the JSON data doesn't include anything confidential. I was happy to learn that you can easily use the json library in Python to accomplish essentially the same thing.
For example:
alpha03:~ tony$ cat test.json {"employees":[{"firstName":"John", "lastName":"Doe"},{"firstName":"Anna", "lastName":"Smith"},{"firstName":"Peter", "lastName":"Jones"}]}
alpha03:~ tony$ python -m json.tool < test.json { "employees": [ { "firstName": "John", "lastName": "Doe" }, { "firstName": "Anna", "lastName": "Smith" }, { "firstName": "Peter", "lastName": "Jones" } ] }