pyfx is a Python-native terminal JSON viewer (TUI) inspired by the fx tool, designed to inspect, browse, and query structured data directly from the command line.
It supports interactive navigation of JSON data along with JSONPath queries, making it useful for developers working with APIs, logs, or CLI output. It can be used both as a standalone CLI application and embedded as a component in Python-based terminal interfaces
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Interactive terminal-based JSON viewer with a text user interface for browsing structured data.
- Supports JSON input from files, standard input (pipes), and clipboard sources.
- JSONPath query support for filtering and extracting specific data within JSON documents.
- Keyboard-driven navigation with expandable and collapsible JSON nodes.
- Can be used as both a standalone CLI tool and a reusable Python module.
- Embeddable JSON viewer components for integration into custom Urwid-based TUIs.
- Configurable via YAML configuration files with theme and keybinding customization.
- Autocomplete support for building JSONPath queries interactively.
Website: github.com/cielong/pyfx
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Developer: Yutian Wu
License: MIT License
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