The task of converting JSON to an Excel CSV file won’t take a long time. We suspect it can take less than a minute if you move fast enough and have the relevant knowledge.

Twitter used to provide CSV exports of your data, now it's all in machine-readable JSON. How can you use it in Excel?

You don’t want to have to SCP the file to your desktop, load the file, save it in the requisite format, and then SCP the file back to the server. You want to be efficient. Hence, csvkit.