fx Plugin

Terminal JSON viewer and processor. View, filter, and transform JSON data with a powerful query language.

Commands

JSON Processing

• fx view json — View and process JSON data

Utility

• fx _ _ — Passthrough to fx CLI

Usage Examples

• "View this JSON file"
• "Filter JSON data"
• "Transform this JSON"
• "Process JSON from curl"

Installation

brew install fx

Or via npm:

npm install -g fx

Or via Go:

go install github.com/antonmedv/fx@latest

Examples

# View JSON file
fx view json data.json

# View JSON from stdin
curl -s https://api.example.com/data | fx

# Filter JSON
cat data.json | fx '.items[] | select(.id > 10)'

# Transform JSON
cat data.json | fx '.[] | {name, value}'

# Interactive mode
fx data.json

# Print specific field
cat data.json | fx '.name'

# Array operations
cat data.json | fx '.[] | .name'

# Complex queries
cat data.json | fx '.users[] | select(.age > 18)'

# Any fx command with passthrough
fx _ _ data.json
fx _ _ -r 'x * 2' < data.json

Key Features

• Interactive mode - Browse JSON with keyboard navigation
• Query language - Powerful filtering and transformation
• Pipe support - Process JSON from stdin
• File support - Read JSON from files
• Color output - Syntax-highlighted JSON
• Compact output - Minified JSON option
• Scripting - Non-interactive mode for scripts

Notes

• Can be used interactively or in scripts
• Supports JavaScript-like query syntax
• Works with any JSON data
• Can output in various formats
• Great for API response inspection