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The .7z files from SERP include .json files. | The .7z files from SERP include .json files. | ||
They're not "pretty printed" -- they're not nicely formatted, they're collapsed into big long strings. Fortunately there are tools out there to pretty print JSON files. | They're not "pretty printed" -- they're not nicely formatted, they're collapsed into big long strings. Fortunately there are tools out there to pretty print JSON files. Copy the .json text into the box on a tool like [https://jsonformatter.org/json-pretty-print the JSON formatter] and hit the pretty print button for a look at the file in a way that respects the structure created by the symbols. | ||
You can use the ''jq'' tool to quickly navigate the .json and dig out just what you care about. For example, if you are a command-line user and wanted only URLS | You can use the ''jq'' tool to quickly navigate the .json and dig out just what you care about. For example, if you are a command-line user and wanted only URLS, with jq plus the magic of standard linux commandline tools you can: | ||
cat 'Sat Mar 28 2020 19-12-13 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time).json' | jq '.linkElements | .[] | .href' | grep -v google.com | tr -d '"' | sort | uniq > newfile.txt | cat 'Sat Mar 28 2020 19-12-13 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time).json' | jq '.linkElements | .[] | .href' | grep -v google.com | tr -d '"' | sort | uniq > newfile.txt | ||
