Which programs can I use to visualize a JSON File?

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I need a program to visualize a json response from a URL or a json file, which organizes the data so it's more human readable. Any suggestions?

possible duplicate of [JSON viewer for browsing APIs](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2368229/json-viewer-for-browsing-apis) — hadley, Jul 24 '12 at 20:13

Mariano Desanze · Answer 1 · 2023-08-03T21:02:42.067

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Great online tools:

json.parser.online.fr (Online JSON Parser)

Excellent for detecting invalid json, and shows both json-parse and eval methods.
jsonlint.com (JSONLint - The JSON Validator)

Open-source, has excellent validation of detecting invalid json, and beautifies JSON.
web.archive.org/.../chris.photobooks.com (JSON Visualization)

Shows json as html tables and is good for detecting invalid json
jsonviewer.stack.hu (Online JSON Viewer)

Nice if you want to traverse json as a tree with properties (but bad for invalid json)

Downloadable tool built on .NET:

JSON Viewer

Has a stand-alone viewer similar to the online viewer of the same name, but also has plugins for Fiddler 2 and Visual Studio 2005

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answered Nov 02 '10 at 14:24

Mariano Desanze

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Yes! http://chris.photobooks.com/json/default.htm is very useful.. – Learner Nov 06 '15 at 06:58
I wrote this one: https://keyserv.solutions/VizBuild/VizBuild.html It is very similar to: http://chris.photobooks.com/json/default.htm – Jawid Hassim Jul 25 '20 at 22:07
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I found the chris.photobooks.com page through the waybackmachine. Here's a link: `http://web.archive.org/web/20200326113913/chris.photobooks.com/json/default.htm` – suchislife Aug 03 '23 at 17:43

youknowone · Answer 2 · 2012-10-31T04:38:05.430

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For mac: VisualJSON on appstore
For web browser: JSONView as plugin
- Firefox: JSONView
- Chrome: JSONView
For Terminal: httpie

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answered Oct 31 '12 at 04:31

youknowone

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JSONView only app I found that worked with very large files – AlanKley Apr 01 '19 at 15:26

score 10 · Answer 3 · answered May 27 '10 at 13:18

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To toot my own horn, I've also written a JSON visualizer - it can even fetch a remote url and visualize the JSON it returns.

You can find it at http://json.bloople.net.

answered May 27 '10 at 13:18

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Link is broken: 500 – parvus Feb 01 '19 at 10:57
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I wrote one too but yours is a work of art! Big fan. – Jawid Hassim Sep 29 '20 at 12:47

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered May 13 '10 at 11:37

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I use JsonLint, a web based validator and reformatter for JSON. Upon validation, it also reformats the JSON file so that it is easier to read.

answered May 13 '10 at 11:37

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score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered May 13 '10 at 11:55

If you are looking for an interactive online app, http://jsbeautifier.org/ works great and there are many suggestions for integrating the functionality into other environments.

You can either execute the core of jsbeautifier (beautify-cl.js) in a hosted js runtime or attempt to re-engineer it in the language of your choice.

If you need to reformat JSON at runtime in .net, I can suggest JSON.Net.

score 3 · Answer 6 · answered Jul 26 '12 at 06:44

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well to continue the trend here (a couple years later) here is another JSON Visualizer created by myself .. though this one a little bit prettier ;)

visualizer.json2html.com

answered Jul 26 '12 at 06:44

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Which programs can I use to visualize a JSON File?

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json.parser.online.fr (Online JSON Parser)

jsonlint.com (JSONLint - The JSON Validator)