# Install json with npm

a 'json' command for massaging and processing JSON on the command line. Version 11.0.0 via npm; verified 2021-04-27.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:json
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g json
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:json
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/json>
- **Version:** 11.0.0
- **Source summary:** a 'json' command for massaging and processing JSON on the command line
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/trentm/json#readme>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/trentm/json>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/trentm/json#readme>
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/json/-/json-11.0.0.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/trentm/json/issues>
- **Published:** 2021-04-27T02:27:58.064Z
- **Last updated:** 2021-04-27T02:27:58.064Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00

## Executables

- json (cli)
- json (alias)

## Build dependencies

- ansidiff
- async
- ben
- nodeunit
- semver
- uglify-js

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 11.0.0
- Package-manager updated: 2021-04-27
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/trentm/json
- warning: The package-manager record has not been updated in over a year.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for json. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Latest: 11.0.0
- **Version Count:** 17
- **Maintainers:** trentm
- **Author:** Trent Mick
- **Publisher:** trentm
- **Engines:** Node: >=0.10.0
- **Integrity:** sha512-N/ITv3Yw9Za8cGxuQqSqrq6RHnlaHWZkAFavcfpH/R52522c26EbihMxnY7A1chxfXJ4d+cEFIsyTgfi9GihrA==
- **Shasum:** 2e84493134e2f42c131165aa22a124df38b3a3ee
- **Unpacked Size:** 125,306
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2011-02-26T23:24:31.702Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2021-04-27T02:27:58.064Z
- **Modified At:** 2023-03-04T17:04:08.238Z

## Other Package-Manager Records

- dnf - json-devel - 3.12.0-2.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: json-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Development files for json | https://github.com/nlohmann/json


## Related links

- [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [json-mask](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/json-mask/) - Both packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: cli, data, filter, json, json-tools.
- [json-beautify](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/json-beautify/) - Both packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: cli, data, json, json-tools.
- [json-diff](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/json-diff/) - Both packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: cli, data, json, json-tools.

## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph