Question

How might you take JSON output (e.g., from http://www.kinggary.com/tools/todoist-export.php) and strip the names to yield just the values from each pair, as CSV or human-friendly text? Want a more readable, human-editable backup of my friend’s data on todoist.com

Answer 1

Your example site generates XML for me, not JSON. In either case I’d probably reach for Ruby:

require 'net/http'
require 'rexml/document'

xml = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse("http://www.kinggary.com/tools/todoist-export.php?completed=incomplete&retrieval=view&submit=Submit&process=true&key=MYKEY")).body

data = REXML::Document.new(xml)

data.elements.each('//task/content') do |e| 
  puts e.text 
end