Converting JSON into newline delimited JSON in Python

The answer with jq is really useful, but if you still want to do it with Python (as it seems from the question), you can do it with built-in json module.

import json
from io import StringIO
in_json = StringIO("""[{
    "key01": "value01",
    "key02": "value02",

    "keyN": "valueN"
},
{
    "key01": "value01",
    "key02": "value02",

    "keyN": "valueN"
},
{
    "key01": "value01",
    "key02": "value02",

    "keyN": "valueN"
}
]""")

result = [json.dumps(record) for record in json.load(in_json)]  # the only significant line to convert the JSON to the desired format

print('\n'.join(result))

{"key01": "value01", "key02": "value02", "keyN": "valueN"}
{"key01": "value01", "key02": "value02", "keyN": "valueN"}
{"key01": "value01", "key02": "value02", "keyN": "valueN"}

* I'm using StringIO and print here just to make a sample easier to test locally.

As an alternative, you can use Python jq binding to combine it with the other answer.

If you are willing to get out of Python, use jq:

$ cat a.json 
[{
    "key01": "value01",
    "key02": "value02",
    "keyN": "valueN"
},
{
    "key01": "value01",
    "key02": "value02",
    "keyN": "valueN"
},
{
    "key01": "value01",
    "key02": "value02",
    "keyN": "valueN"
}
]


$ cat a.json | jq -c '.[]'
{"key01":"value01","key02":"value02","keyN":"valueN"}
{"key01":"value01","key02":"value02","keyN":"valueN"}
{"key01":"value01","key02":"value02","keyN":"valueN"}

The iterator I used is '.[]' to go through the array, and -c puts each JSON object on a single line.

Resources:

• https://stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/
• https://github.com/stedolan/jq