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I've been playing around with a similar idea - using plain JSON as the message format, you can make a set of pipeable command line utilities for manipulating data from many web APIs.

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Have you seen RecordStream? It's some good cli tools based on streams of json which might be handy.

https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream

I've used it a lot and it's a godsend for a most "record-y" manipulation.

A textual format needs parsing though at every stage in the pipeline. Thats why I think using an (optional, when supported) binary format is important.

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