[Ethereum] How to easily parse a raw transaction

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In the Bitcoin ecosystem, there are tools like https://blockchain.info/decode-tx to decode a raw transaction. Is there a site that offers the equivalent for Ethereum?

I'm looking for an easy way to parse a raw transaction and make it human readable, without installing a library or broadcasting the transaction.

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It perhaps doesn't meet the "it would be nice to give it to someone non-technical and allow them to parse it without using tools I've provided" qualifier, but the Ethslurp tool may be of use to people with at least some technical knowhow.

(As mentioned in an answer to this very similar previous question: Symbolic decoding of a transaction for Solidity.)

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Ethereum Transactions – Creating and Signing Offline Raw Transactions

ethereumjs-tx is a library with this example:

npm install ethereumjs-tx

const Tx = require('ethereumjs-tx').Transaction
var privateKey = new Buffer('e331b6d69882b4cb4ea581d88e0b604039a3de5967688d3dcffdd2270c0fd109', 'hex')

var rawTx = {
  nonce: '0x00',
  gasPrice: '0x09184e72a000', 
  gasLimit: '0x2710',
  to: '0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000', 
  value: '0x00', 
  data: '0x7f7465737432000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000600057'
}

var tx = new Tx(rawTx)
tx.sign(privateKey)

var serializedTx = tx.serialize()
console.log(serializedTx.toString('hex'))

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