kafka console consumer pretty print json

Question

How to print response from Kafka console consumer to JSON pretty. I have tried this but it's not working.

./kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic indexing-v1 
--from-beginning | python -m json.tool

Answer 1

Using jq was able to view pretty JSON. Thanks.

./kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic indexing-v1 
--from-beginning  | jq