How to pass obscenely large text blocks between console and Chrome using the clipboard?

Question

This object is too big for google chrome to let me copy and paste it from console. It also parses the strings so I would even then have to manually put in the quotes after getting the object. Is there another way to get my answer that I’m just overlooking?

SOLUTION/EDIT: I can't quite remember why I specifically needed to do this, but the solution was to use a text editor that can handle large files (e.g Sublime) and copy and paste it to the console from there.

Thank you to all

[There's no such thing as a "JSON Object"](http://benalman.com/news/2010/03/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-json/) — Andreas, Jul 12 '16 at 07:19
Here you can find more details on how you can do that http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3665115/create-a-file-in-memory-for-user-to-download-not-through-server — Titus, Jul 12 '16 at 07:19
So let me get this straight: your problem is not actually parsing the JSON the way you describe in the question. Your problem is **passing obscenely large text blocks between console and Chrome using the clipboard** (the fact the text contains JSON being largely irrelevant). — SF., Jul 12 '16 at 07:46
Although I don't get the _why_,,, `copy(JSON.stringify(yourObject, null, 4))` stores a well formatted string representation of `yourObject` in the clipboard. `copy()` is only available in the console of Firefox and Chrome! — Andreas, Jul 12 '16 at 07:52

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 12 '16 at 07:26

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interesting, maybe you could try posting it to http://requestb.in/, something like:

$.post("http://requestb.in/...", json);

answered Jul 12 '16 at 07:26

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Thank you! First question asked on stackoverflow, sorry if it wasn't clear enough or precise enough. This was definitely one of my weirder scenarios for help. Question got answered though; thanks a bunch Topro – Austin Kim Jul 13 '16 at 17:42

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 12 '16 at 07:56

you could loop through the JSON-Object properties and set every entry to 1 manual.

//example jsobject
var jsonObject = {
  "glossary": {
    "title": "example glossary",
    "GlossDiv": {
      "title": "S",
      "GlossList": {
        "GlossEntry": {
          "ID": "SGML",
          "SortAs": "SGML",
          "GlossTerm": "Standard Generalized Markup Language",
          "Acronym": "SGML",
          "Abbrev": "ISO 8879:1986",
          "GlossDef": {
            "para": "A meta-kup languages such as DocBook.",
            "GlossSeeAlso": ["GML", "XML"]
          },
          "GlossSee": "markup"
        }
      }
    }
  }
};
for (var prop in jsonObject) {
  // skip loop if the property is from prototype and though is a subobject
  if (!jsonObject.hasOwnProperty(prop)) continue;
  //set it to 1
  jsonObject[prop] = 1;
}
console.log(jsonObject);

You could use something like compression to compress the output of the JSON-Object / your new JSON-Object via some js-scripts like [LZMA-JS](https://nmrugg.github.io/LZMA-JS/demos/advanced_demo.html).. this will compress / make the amount of data smaller so you could copy it to the clipboard. — Georg.Duees, Jul 12 '16 at 07:56
When you convert it later via atob to base64 you can compress the output even more... — Georg.Duees, Jul 12 '16 at 08:15

How to pass obscenely large text blocks between console and Chrome using the clipboard?

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