can you recommend me a json viewer application?

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I need one that will indent the json for ease of reading

The famous simple file editors - editplus , notepad++ - they all dont have json doc type.
There are a lot of online sites with built in viewer. I need an offline one.

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I asked a similar question [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2368229/json-viewer-for-browsing-apis) there are answers for both on-line and off-line viewers. — Myster, Jun 01 '11 at 20:34
Also: [Eclipse Json Editor Plugin](http://sourceforge.net/projects/eclipsejsonedit/). — Franck Dernoncourt, Jan 18 '14 at 14:55
Other ideas: http://rajakannappan.blogspot.com/2014/07/json-desktop-editors.html — Franck Dernoncourt, Apr 13 '15 at 03:45
Well not really, http://www.jsonviewers.com/ is bit better and advance than jsonviewer :) — Mohit Bumb, Jul 09 '15 at 11:48
Firefox has a built-in json viewer. Just open your .json file in Firefox. — mivk, Mar 20 '18 at 11:14
Browser's plugin called jsonview at https://jsonview.com It supports both Firefox and Chrome. — konyak, Aug 01 '18 at 19:18

score 24 · Accepted Answer · answered May 16 '11 at 10:47

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I have used JSON Viewer, it works nicely and is lightweight. However it's really down to your taste or whether you require some specific features. It's probably worth it to take a look at some screenshots of several different ones first.

answered May 16 '11 at 10:47

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It lacks drag-and-drop, which was a deal breaker for me. – Deebster Apr 01 '14 at 14:43
and lacks write support?! – enthus1ast Jul 04 '14 at 22:30
Decent but quite slow for some operations, even on small files. – Franck Dernoncourt Apr 13 '15 at 02:24
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How do you actually use it? I have the chrome extension and all I see is "copy path" and "copy value." – tccpg288 Jul 24 '16 at 13:55
Only Windows support? – Jonny Mar 02 '17 at 05:54
beware the patent clause in its license. Looks good otherwise. – interestedparty333 Apr 05 '18 at 21:22

Murray Foxcroft · Answer 2 · 2017-02-20T16:46:51.933

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The Notepad++ plug in NPP JSON Viewer worked well for me too, it is a little slow with large amounts of data, but does a good job of formatting long JSON strings and displays a structured tree of the data for click through navigation. It would be nice if the tree was searchable, but unfortunately it is currently not.

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answered Oct 02 '12 at 15:31

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score 9 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 17 '13 at 06:09

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I have been using the jsmin pluggin which has both JSON viewer and JSON formatter. No problem opening 20MB of data. You can hilight a single json line and Alt+Ctrl+M to format just one line, or you can format the entire file.

http://www.sunjw.us/jsminnpp

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answered Dec 22 '12 at 18:00

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JSON viewer hanged with my 7mb file =/ – Markus Knappen Johansson Oct 20 '16 at 12:13
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@MarkusKnappenJohansson I found it works better if you first reformat the file, then open the json viewer. – Bryan Rink Sep 14 '17 at 21:22
Lightning fast JSON parser. Much better than NPP JSON Viewer which hanged on a mere 2.5 mb json file, this one parsed it in less than 1 second. Thank you. – Petr Abdulin Oct 23 '17 at 12:28

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered May 16 '11 at 10:50

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You can search in google for notepad++ json plugin... and one of the results => http://sourceforge.net/projects/nppjsonviewer/

answered May 16 '11 at 10:50

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strangely enough - it installed but doesnt do anything – Bick May 16 '11 at 11:03
view the readme file. "Select JSON fragment and navigate to plugins/JSON Viewer/show JSON Viewer or press "Ctrl+Alt+Shift+J". You have to select some JSON string – thinklinux May 16 '11 at 11:13

can you recommend me a json viewer application?

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