Convert the output of openssl command to JSON

Question

The output of the openssl command looks like this:

serial=CABCSDUMMY4A168847703FGH
notAfter=Oct 21 16:43:47 2024 GMT
subject= /C=US/ST=WA/L=Seattle/O=MyCo/OU=TME/CN=MyCo.example.com

How do I convert this string to JSON?

I tried these:

temp_txt_bytes = subprocess.check_output (["openssl", "x509", "-serial", "-enddate", "-subject", "-noout", "-in", pem_file_name])

temp_txt_strings = temp_txt_bytes.decode("utf-8")

test = json.loads(temp_txt_strings) #json.parse, json.dump, and json.load also failing

What do you want to serialize? A string of the output lines? That's just `json.dumps(temp_txt_strings)`. — tdelaney, Apr 19 '17 at 21:10

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 19 '17 at 21:47

You can split every line with "=" as a separator, put the two parts in an ordered dictionary and then dump it to json:

my_list = "serial=CABCSDUMMY4A168847703FGH".split("=")
ordered_dict = OrderedDict()
ordered_dict[my_list[0]] = my_list[1]
print(json.dumps(ordered_dict))

the output would be like this:

{"serial": "CABCSDUMMY4A168847703FGH"}

you can do it for all lines. PS don't forget to import json and OrderedDict

Convert the output of openssl command to JSON

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