So you need to Invoke a HTTP API that returns JSON but you dont want to leave the comfort of your console. And you want the JSON response to be well formatted and color-highlighted

curl_json_pp_pygmentize.md

So you need to Invoke a HTTP API that returns JSON but you dont want to leave the comfort of your console. And you want the JSON response to be well formatted and color-highlighted.

You'll need:

1. cURL
2. json_pp
3. pygmentize

You can just apt install all of them

Here's an example:

# curl -s -X GET http://127.0.0.1/api/people | json_pp | pygmentize -l json