JSON, YAML And TOML In Quick Look

Press Space on a config file and read it formatted

Works without the Space helper
Free and open source
macOS 13+

package.jsonRaw

The demo’s package.json as a tree: drawn in HTML, not a screenshot.

Quick Look shows JSON or YAML as plain text at best, minified JSON on one line. spacebar takes Space for config: JSON as a tree, YAML, TOML and the rest highlighted with line numbers, and a click fixes a typo.

Install It

Download for Mac

Or paste this in Terminal

$ curl -fsSL https://spacebar.patebryant.com/install.sh | sh

The script downloads the latest notarized release from GitHub, checks its SHA-256 and installs to ~/Applications, no sudo. Read the script.

What You See

JSONA tree with Expand All and Collapse All, and Raw. .jsonc, .json5, GeoJSON, .har; up to 16 MB
Find in the treeOpens the branch each match is in
YAML, TOML, XML, INIHighlighted, with line numbers
TSV and CSVA sortable table; CSV from the sidebar or the Space helper
Property listsAs XML, binary ones included
Secrets stay put.env is shown, never offered to other apps

.ipynb opens as its cells: see Jupyter notebooks.

Press Space On A Config

.json .yamlSelect a config file in Finder.
SpaceIt opens formatted, the folder in the sidebar.
⌥⌘FFilter by name, or switch to Contents to search the text; click another file to compare.

More: syntax highlighting, file types, the Space helper, Quick Look replacement, compare.