JSON Formatter is an online tool created to help individuals debug JSON data. JSON data is often output without line breaks to save space, making it difficult to read and understand. This tool solves the problem by formatting and beautifying JSON data, making it easier to read and debug by humans.
This tool also provides advanced JSON validation capabilities following the description set out by Douglas Crockford of json.org in RFC 4627. The validation tool has been updated to allow validation of multiple JSON standards, including both current specifications RFC 8259 and ECMA-404. Additionally, this tool has the capability to fix common JSON errors. If enabled, it can replace incorrect quotes, add missing quotes, correct numeric keys, lowercase literals, escape unescaped characters, and remove comments and trailing commas.
JSON or JavaScript Object Notation is a language-independent open data format that uses human-readable text to express data objects consisting of attribute-value pairs. Although originally derived from the JavaScript scripting language, JSON data can be generated and parsed with a wide variety of programming languages including JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Java.
JSON Formatter can be used for various purposes. It validates JSON online with error messages, shows the image on hover on Image URL in a tree view, and beautifies JSON data with indentation levels: 2 spaces, 3 spaces, and 4 spaces. It also supports printing of JSON data and provides functionality to upload a JSON file and download formatted JSON file.
This tool has multiple functionalities to format JSON data, including JSON Graph View of JSON String, which works as a JSON debugger or corrector and can format arrays and objects. The last JSON formatted can be stored locally in the browser's local storage. It can be used as a notepad++ / Sublime / VSCode alternative of JSON beautification, and it can also work as JSON Lint.
Users can use the auto switch to turn auto-update on or off. JSON Formatter uses $.parseJSON and JSON.stringify to beautify JSON data, making it easy for humans to read and analyze. Once the JSON is created or modified, it can be downloaded and opened in Notepad++, Sublime, or VSCode alternative.
- Copy the JSON data that needs to be formatted.
- Go to the JSON Formatter and paste the data in the editor.
- Select the preferred indentation level.
- Click the "Format JSON" button to beautify the data.
- The beautified JSON data will be displayed in the editor.
- The formatted data can be coped/downloaded and used for debugging purposes.