Pretty Print JSON Body

How to pretty print a JSON output body in order to format it in bash console like

macbookproloreto:~ admin$ echo '{"foo": "lorem", "bar": "ipsum"}' | python -m json.tool
{
    "bar": "ipsum",
    "foo": "lorem"
}

My command looks like now

http --session=cookies.txt --pretty all --json --print=b --style=xcode "https://myapi.company.com | python -m json.tool

Does the option --pretty aims to pretty print the output body? Having it seems to not prettify the output body, instead it prints the json as plain text

'{"foo": "lorem", "bar": "ipsum"}'

[loretoparisi]

@jkbrzt exactly. In fact the issue was that the server headers was text/plain while the body was a text formatted as a json body (well formatted json). Basically the response header Content-Type is not application/json. Can HTTPie force json formatting in those cases?

[jakubroztocil]

HTTPie looks at the response Content-Type header. If it’s text/plain, then it doesn’t do any special formatting. The URL you provided returns Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 so it gets properly formatted and highlighted as JSON.