jsonhero-web VS pup

JSON Hero is another JSON viewer that allows us to explore and navigate our JSON data quickly and easily. Instead of providing a graphical visualization like JSON Crack, it allows us to see the structure of JSON in either a column, tree, or JSON layout.

Last year me and three friends launched a small open source project named jsonhero.io. We built it during our evenings and weekends, and to our surprise it quickly became super popular as a way to view JSON documents, receiving thousands of GitHub stars within a matter of weeks.

Suppose if you visit this link in your browser: lexica.art/api/v1/search?q=apples. You will get a JSON response back consisting of an array of images that match "apples". To understand the schema of the JSON response, you can use Postman or JSONHero.

JSON Hero: Enhanced JSON structure visualization\ (136 comments)

It looks like it's open source and you can run it locally if you don't trust a third party website (and you probably shouldn't, depending on the data you paste in there): https://github.com/apihero-run/jsonhero-web

And lnk=$(curl -s https://www.selfstudys.com$url |grep "PDFFlip" | cut -d '"' -f 6) to lnk=$(curl -s https://www.selfstudys.com$url | pup "div#PDFF attr{source}" ) here pup will print content of source attribute from div tag with id PDFF i dont know that much about html & css so this is what i came up with. but i am sure you can also select class & make list of suburls from them. check out the video from bugswriter on pup or read docs from git hub for more info github link: https://github.com/ericchiang/pup

jq is pretty amazing. If you are comfortable with its jquery-like CSS selector syntax, then I should also mention a couple similar cli utilities that apply it to HTML: htmlp and pup.

Regex is not a great tool for parsing web pages. Open up a browser dev tools window and select a bit of the page. Right click > copy... XPath expression or CSS selector. A proper web scraping tool will accept either of those. No muss, no fuss. You can even use simple command line tools: xpath or pup

This is HTML to JSON, written in Rust, and there's also pup[1] which I found out about just the other day on HN[2] which uses a very similar syntax (CSS selectors) but outputs HTML and is written in Go.

I can see room for both though it would interesting to have a more detailed comparison to go on (e.g. types of HTML, speed etc).

[1] https://github.com/ericchiang/pup

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33805732

It looks like the project became inactive for a bit and there are alternatives such as htmlq, etc. https://github.com/ericchiang/pup/issues/150

Another tool worth mentioning is pup - it can produce JSON output which means you can pipe it to jq