Now, opening a JSON file is not hard, however, it would make more sense to convert it to the Microsoft Excel (CSV) format for easier use. The question is, how does one convert a JSON file to Excel?

Tabs are pretty self-explanatory: multiple views from the same JSON file can be opened in separate Safari-like tabs, and you can navigate to a different point of the JSON’s structure in one tab to ...

And that’s how we can manipulate XLS, JSON, and CSV files with csvkit. This tool might not be used very often, but when you need it, you’ll be happy it’s around.

The file will be saved using the JSON Canvas extension '.canvas'. When you open it in a text editor, you can see that it has been saved in JSON Canvas format, as shown below.

It turns out that Twitter is using a non-standard version of JSON lists for its exports, and you're going to need to make a quick change to the file it delivers if you want to be able to use your ...