Parse LDIF data into common text formats. It currently supports conversion to JSON and to YAML.

This is a thin wrapper around the python-ldap package.

From:

$ ldapsearch -Q -L -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -b dc=company,dc=com
version: 1

#
# LDAPv3
# base <dc=company,dc=com> with scope subtree
# filter: (objectclass=*)
# requesting: ALL
#

# company.com
dn: dc=company,dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: dcObject
objectClass: organization
o: company
dc: company

# admin, company.com
dn: cn=admin,dc=company,dc=com
objectClass: simpleSecurityObject
objectClass: organizationalRole
cn: admin
description: LDAP administrator

# search result

# numResponses: 3
# numEntries: 2

To :

$ ldapsearch -Q -L -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -b dc=company,dc=com | ldifparse
cn=admin,dc=company,dc=com:
  cn: admin
  description: LDAP administrator
  objectClass:
  - simpleSecurityObject
  - organizationalRole
dc=company,dc=com:
  dc: company
  o: company
  objectClass:
  - top
  - dcObject
  - organization

The recommended way of installing ldifparse is through the pipx installer :

pipx install ldifparse

ldifparse will be installed in an isolated environment but will be available globally as a shell application.

Alternatively, you can install ldifparse in an environment of your choosing with pip :

pip install ldifparse

You can also download the source code from github :

git clone https://github.com/MatteoBouvier/ldifparse.git

We recommend also installing jq for viewing and manipulating JSON in the terminal. The YAML equivalent is yq.

The simplest way to use ldifparse is by piping it some LDIF data :

cat input.ldif | ldifparse

This will print a YAML version of the data to stdout.

You can specify the ouput format with the --output parameter (-o for the short version). The output can either be json or yaml (-oj and -oy are also accepted as shorthands).

Instead of a perfect translation of LDIF to JSON/YAML, you can get a tree representation with the --tree (-t) parameter.