There are a number of different ways to parse JSON.

• json.load - parse a JSON file
• json.loads - parse JSON (key:value pairs)
• json.dumps - convert a dictionary into json
• json.tool - parse JSON on the command line (this article)
• .json() filter - parse JSON results

The python -m json.tool command can be used to produce human friendly JSON output on the command line.

~]$ echo '{ "foo": "Hello", "bar": "World" }' | python -m json.tool
{
    "bar": "World",
    "foo": "Hello"
}