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Applications

  • Dadroit JSON Viewer

    Very fast JSON Viewer, supporting huge (multi gigabytes) files, JSON log (JSON-Lines and ndjson)

  • Visual JSON

    simple JSON pretty-viewer for Mac OS X. (inactive)

  • JSONExport

    convert a object to a class of one of the currently supported languages

Binary Serialization

  • BSON

    Binary JSON

  • MessagePack

    An extremely efficient object serialization library

  • UBJSON

    The universally compatible format specification for binary JSON

  • CBOR

    Concise Binary Object Representation

  • PSON

    Protocol JSON, super efficient binary serialization format

  • JSON BinPack

    Space-efficient binary JSON serialization format based on JSON Schema

Browser Extensions

  • JSON Formatter

    ( ) - Makes JSON easy to read. Open source

  • JSON Viewer

    ( ) - It is a Chrome extension for printing JSON and JSONP

  • JSON Finder

    ( ) - Browse like you do it in Finder

  • JSON Viewer Pro

    ( - An open source Chrome extension for browsing JSON with syntax highlighting and folding, or as a visual graph

  • Discoverable JSON

    ( ) - Gron inspired Extension. Convert a JSON document into javascript expressions. Comes with filter, remove, find-and-replace capabilities

  • JSONView

    ( ) - View JSON documents in the browser

  • JSONAce

    ( ) - Formats & syntax highlights JSON viewed inside of the web browser using the ACE editor

  • JSONView

    ( ) - A port of the JSONView Firefox extension that formats and syntax highlights JSON viewed inside of the browser

Command-line tools

  • dsq

    Tool for running SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Excel, Parquet, and more

  • fx

    A interactive terminal tool

  • jo

    A small utility to create JSON objects

  • jsoncat

    Pretty-print Json in terminal with colors and adjusting tabs size

  • jq

    A lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor

Command-line tools / jq

  • jaq

    A jq clone focussed on correctness, speed, and simplicity. Written in Rust

  • gojq

    Pure Go implementation of jq. A bit faster and more portable

Command-line tools

  • livejq

    An alternative implementation in rust for continuous parsing without crashing on invalid JSON

  • json

    A "json" command for massaging JSON on your Unix command line

  • json-search

    A small tool to search for objects/values in json files

  • jshon

    A parser designed for maximum convenience within the shell

  • jarg

    Shorthand JSON and form encoding syntax in the shell

  • jsawk

    Like awk, but for JSON

  • json-dotenv

    Manipulate and extract envfiles in json format

  • gron

    Convert a JSON file into discrete assignments that are greppable

  • jid

    Incremental Digger. Drill down JSON interactively by using filtering queries like jq

  • jiq

    It's with . You can drill down interactively by using filtering queries

  • jv

    jv (for jsonviewer) helps you view your JSON

  • jl

    Functional sed for JSON

  • oj

    A fast and flexible command line JSON processor

  • visidata

    A terminal spreadsheet-like tool for interactively exploring data

  • jc

    Converts the output of many CLI tools, file-types, and common strings into JSON

  • logdy

    jq, tail, less, grep and awk merged together and available in a clean web UI

Databases

  • MongoDB

    an open-source document database, and the leading NoSQL database

  • RethinkDB

    An open-source distributed document database with a pleasant and powerful query language

  • EJDB

    Embedded JSON Database engine published under MIT license. (C)

  • lowdb

    Flat file database built on lodash API. (Javascript)

  • Lawnchair

    A lightweight clientside document store. (Javascript)

  • JSON ODM

    Object document mapper for JavaScript to use on the server or in the browser. (Javascript)

  • JSON Server

    Get a full fake REST API with zero coding in less than 30 seconds

  • Kinto

    A lightweight JSON storage service with synchronisation and sharing abilities

  • CouchDB

    Seamless multi-master sync, that scales from Big Data to Mobile, with an Intuitive HTTP/JSON API and designed for Reliability

  • RxDB

    Event-driven JSON-Database with JSON-Schema, mango-Query and CouchDB-sync. (Javascript)

  • JSONlite

    A simple, self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, json document store. (Bash)

Datasets

Data modeling

  • JSONModel

    Magical Data Modelling Framework. (Objective-C)

Data generation

  • jsonymize

    Reads data from standard input, anonymizes, then writes to standard output

  • dyson

    Server for dynamic, fake JSON. (node.js)

Differencing

  • JSONPatch

    A format for describing changes to a document

  • JSON-Patch

    Lean and mean Javascript implementation of the JSON-Patch standard (RFC 6902). (Javascript)

  • jiff

    JSON Patch and diff based on rfc6902. (Javascript)

  • json-patch-php

    implementation of JSON-patch (IETF RFC 6902) (PHP)

  • dffptch

    A micro library for diffing and patching using a compact diff format. (Javascript)

  • jsondiffpatch

    Diff & patch for JavaScript objects. (Javascript)

Editors

  • FrontAid CMS

    Content Management System that supports arbitrary data model structures

  • JSONEdit

    User friendly, visual editor built as an AngularJS directive

  • JSON Crack

    Display your JSON as a graph

Format Extensions

  • GeoJSON

    A geospatial data interchange format

  • JSON-LD

    A lightweight Linked Data format

  • JSON-RPC

    A stateless, light-weight remote procedure call (RPC) protocol

  • JSONP

    Safer cross-domain Ajax with JSON-P/JSONP

  • JsonML

    A compact format for transporting XML-based markup as JSON which allows it to be losslessly converted back to its original form

  • JSON5

    a extension that aims to make it easier for humans to write and maintain by hand

  • JSON6

    JSON for Humans (ES6)

  • JSON 1.1/JSONX

    An evolved version 1.1 with format extension for humans incl. comments, unquoted and multi-line strings, optional and trailing commas and more

  • JSON Resume

    The open source initiative to create standard for resumes

  • JSON Web Tokens

    A compact URL-safe means of representing claims to be transferred between two parties

  • JSON API

    A standard for building APIs

  • Collection+JSON

    A read/write hypermedia-type designed to support management and querying of simple collections

  • hal-json

    A set of conventions for expressing hyperlinks in either JSON or XML

  • JSON Activity Streams

    A format for syndicating social activities around the web

  • JSON-stat

    Simple lightweight format for data dissemination

  • /contribute.json

    Making open source contribution information easier to access, across projects

  • NDJSON

    (Newline delimited JSON) - a standard for delimiting JSON in stream protocols

  • survey.js

    JSON based survey library

  • JSON Meta Application Protocol (JMAP)

    A protocol for synchronising JSON-based data objects efficiently, with support for push and out-of-band binary data upload/download

  • JackSON: JSON secret keeper

    JSONic way of storing secrets in config file

  • Sequence JSON

    A proposal for a standard way of creating music sequence data in JSON

Frontend components

  • JSON editor jQuery plugin

    component for you web apps/pages. (jQuery)

  • jqTree

    Widget for displaying a tree structure in html. (jQuery)

  • jsTree

    jquery plugin, that provides interactive trees. (jQuery)

  • Dynatable.js

    A funner, semantic, HTML5+JSON, interactive table plugin. (jQuery)

  • JSON Formatter

    Angular directive for collapsible JSON in HTML. (AngularJS)

  • react-jsonschema-form

    A React component for building Web forms from JSON Schema. (React)

  • @textea/json-viewer

    A React component for JSON viewer. (React)

  • ngx-formly

    JSON powered / Dynamic forms for Angular

Libraries

  • Jansson

    A C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating data

  • jsmn

    A minimalistic parser in C. It can be easily integrated into the resource-limited projects or embedded systems

  • json-build

    A minimalistic serializer in C. It can be easily integrated into the resource-limited projects or embedded systems

  • ojc

    A fast JSON parser

  • ArduinoJson

    An efficient library for embedded systems

  • JSON++

    A self contained Flex/Bison parser for C++11

  • json11

    A tiny library for C++11

  • Nlohmann JSON

    A C++11 header-only class

  • RapidJSON

    A fast JSON parser/generator for C++ with both SAX/DOM style API

  • simdjson

    Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second

  • data.json

    parser/generator to/from Clojure data structures

  • JSON-Fortran

    A Fortran library for writing, reading, and manipulating JSON files and data structures

  • ojg

    A collection of high performance JSON processing and generating tool

  • aeson-qq

    JSON quasiquoter for Haskell

  • json-schema

    JSON Schema library for Haskell

  • hjsonschema

    JSON Schema Draft 4 library for Haskell

  • JSON-java

    A reference implementation

  • Gson

    A Java library to convert JSON to Java objects and vice-versa

  • Jackson

    A multi-purpose Java library for processing JSON data format

  • moshi

    A modern JSON library for Android and Java

  • essential-json

    A lightweight Java library for serialization, parsing and manipulation with a clean and precise API

  • dsl-json

    A very fast streaming JSON library. Operates on byte arrays

  • mjson

    Lean JSON Library for Java, with a compact, elegant API

  • JSON-js

    JSON in JavaScript

  • JSON 3

    A modern implementation

  • oboe.js

    A streaming approach, speeds up web applications by providing parsed objects before the response completes

  • FracturedJsonJs

    A JSON formatter that produces human-readable but fairly compact output

  • JsonHilo

    Minimal lossless parse event streaming, akin to SAX

  • JSONKit

    Objective-C library

  • SBJson

    Parse one or more chunks of data

  • JSON::Tiny

    Perl module for encoding and decoding JSON in a minimalistic way

  • PL/JSON

    A generic JSON object written in PL/SQL

  • Webmozart JSON

    A robust decoder/encoder with support for schema validation

  • simplejson

    A simple, fast, extensible encoder/decoder

  • jsonpickle

    Library for serializing any arbitrary object graph

  • metamagic.json

    An ultra-fast Python 3 implementation of a JSON encoder

  • oj

    A fast JSON parser and Object marshaller as a Ruby gem

  • MultiJSON

    A generic swappable back-end for JSON handling

  • json2react

    Use JSON to create React Stateless Components

  • jsonfx

    serialization framework for .NET

  • jsonapi-consumer

    Client framework for consuming JSONAPI based APIs on the

  • FracturedJson

    A formatter that produces human-readable but fairly compact output

  • spray-json

    A lightweight, clean and simple implementation in Scala

  • circe

    Yet another JSON library for Scala

  • scala-jsonapi

    Support library for integrating the JSON:API spec with Play, Spray and/or Circe backends

  • jsoniter-scala

    Scala macros for compile-time generation of ultra-fast JSON codecs

  • jshn

    JSON parsing and generation library in for shell scripts (Ash/Bash)

  • SwiftyJSON

    The better way to deal with data in Swift

Linters

  • jsonlint

    Parser and validator with a CLI. (Javascript)

  • JSON Lint

    PHP linter. (PHP)

Online tools

Schema Specifications

  • JSON Schema

    a JSON based format for defining the structure of JSON data

  • Itemscript

    Language for validating and specifying values

  • Kwalify

    A parser, schema validator, and data binding tool

  • Rx

    Simple, Extensible Schemata

Services

  • Exchange Rate API

    A simple and free API for currency exchange rate data

  • ipinfo.io

    JSON IP and GeoIP REST API

  • JSONProxy

    Simple HTTP proxy that enables cross-domain requests to any JSON API

  • Telize

    JSON IP and GeoIP REST API

  • jsonpad

    a simple JSON storage platform

Supersets

  • YAML

    A human friendly data serialization standard for all programming languages

  • HanSON

    JSON for Humans - with unquoted identifiers, multi-line strings and comments

  • μson

    (uson) - a shorthand for JSON

  • HOCON

    Human-Optimized Config Object Notation

  • ASON

    A semantically complete superset of JSON (draft)

  • TOML

    A minimal configuration file format that's easy to read due to obvious semantics

  • HCL

    A structured configuration language that is both human and machine friendly

Tutorials

  • AXON

    A simple text based format for interchanging of objects, documents and data. It tries to combine the best of JSON, XML and YAML

  • CSON

    CoffeeScript-Object-Notation. JSON for CoffeeScript objects

  • MSON

    Markdown syntax compatible with describing JSON and JSON Schema

  • ArchieML

    Structured text format optimized for human writability

Resources

  • Type-o-rama

    JS type systems interportability, comparison of different JS type systems and conversion between them

  • Awesome jq

    A curated list of awesome jq tools and resources

Templates

  • Jsonnet

    A domain specific configuration language that helps you define JSON data

  • rabl

    General ruby templating with json, bson, xml, plist and msgpack support. (Ruby)

  • json2html

    HTML templating library with wrappers for both jQuery and Node.js. (Javascript)

Testing

  • JSON Test

    Testing platform for services utilizing JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

  • JSONassert

    Write JSON unit tests in less code. Great for testing REST interfaces. (Java)

  • JsonUnit

    A library that simplifies JSON comparison in unit tests. It's strongly inspired by XmlUnit

  • JSON Parsing Test Suite

    A very complete test suite and validation framework

Text Editor Plugins

  • JSON Reformat

    Reformat tool

  • vim-json

    A better JSON for Vim: distinct highlighting of keywords vs values, JSON-specific (non-JS) warnings, quote concealing. Pathogen-friendly

  • FracturedJsonVsc

    Formatter that produces human-readable but fairly compact output

  • nvim-jqx

    Browse and query json files in neovim from the quickfix window. (Lua)

Transformations

  • json-sharp

    Javascript tool to process operations on pure JSON objects. (Javascript)

  • json2json

    Transform (reformat) structures from one to another. (Javascript)

  • trans

    The ultimate object transformer. (Javascript)

  • osmtogeojson

    Converts OSM data to GeoJSON. (Javascript)

  • fast-xml-parser

    Fast XML to JSON and vice versa javascript/JSON conversion

  • x2js

    XML to JSON and vice versa javascript conversion functions. (Javascript)

  • JSONC

    JSON compressor and decompressor. (Javascript)

  • JsonMapper

    Map nested structures onto PHP classes (PHP)

  • SassyJSON

    Sass-powered API. (Sass)

  • json.human.js

    A small library to convert a JSON object into a human readable HTML representation that is easy to style for different purposes

  • JSONtoFoundation

    OS X utility that converts a JSON object to a Foundation object that can be used in Cocoa/Cocoa Touch development. (Swift)

  • fanci

    Extract, rename and transform JSON based on a template. (node.js)

  • Pinch

    String.replace for JavaScript objects. (Javascript)

  • deepjson

    A better way to load big json config files. (node.js)

  • jsontl

    allow transformation using a JSON-based transformation language. (node.js)

  • json-transforms

    A recursive, pattern-matching, approach to transforming JSON structures

  • normalizr

    Normalizes nested JSON according to a schema. (Javascript)

  • JSON-populate

    Tool for populating JSON data with infinitely recursive circular references. Sort of like Falcor, but for plain JSON

  • CircularJSON

    JSON does not handle circular references. Now it does

  • Sawmill

    JSON transformation library (Java)

  • nimnjs

    JSON to nimn bidirectional converter

  • stylops

    CSS subset to JSON conversion. (node.js)

Queries

  • dasel

    Query and update data structures using selectors from the command line. Comparable to / but supports JSON, YAML, TOML and XML with zero runtime dependencies

  • JMESPath

    A query language for JSON

  • JSON Mask

    Tiny language and engine for selecting specific parts of a JS object, hiding the rest. (Javascript)

  • JSONiq

    The JSON Query Language

  • ObjectPath

    The agile query language for semi-structured data. (Python)

  • DefiantJS

    Lightning-fast searches using XPath expressions, and transform using XSL. (Javascript)

  • JSONSelect

    CSS-like selectors. (Javascript)

  • JSONPath

    XPath implementation. (Javascript/PHP)

  • searchjs

    A library for filtering based on a json SQL-like language

  • json-rel

    Transparent references in JSON

  • JSONata

    Query and transformation language used in Node-RED, supports function expressions

JSON Schema Frontend components

  • JSON Editor

    JSON Schema Based Editor. (jQuery)

  • angular-schema-form

    Generate forms. (AngularJS)

  • JSON Schema View

    An AngularJS directive for rendering JSON Schema in HTML (AngularJS)

  • Angular JSON Schema Form

    Angular directive for making forms out of JSON Schema. (AngularJS)

  • AlpacaJS

    Generates JSON Schema driven forms on top of Bootstrap, jQuery Mobile, jQuery UI and HTML (jQuery)

JSON Schema Tools

  • prmd

    Tools and doc generation for HTTP APIs

  • generate-schema

    Effortlessly convert your JSON Object to JSON Schema, Mongoose Schema, or a Generic template for quick documentation / upstart

  • Docson

    Documentation for your types

  • Orderly JSON

    A textual format for describing JSON compiled into JSONSchema

  • jsonschema2pojo

    Generates Java types and annotates those types for data-binding with Jackson 1.x or 2.x, Gson, etc

  • Matic

    Build tool for generating HTML documentation

  • JSON Schema + Faker

    Fake your schemas

  • DLL.js

    Gets you a JSON Schema from PostgreSQL or SQLite3

  • JSONSchema.net

    JSON Schema generator from JSON object

  • js-schema

    A new way of describing object schemas in JavaScript. It has a clean and simple syntax, and it is capable of serializing to/from the popular JSON Schema format

  • aptos

    A tool for validating data using JSON Schema and converting JSON Schema documents into different data-interchange formats

  • JSON Schema $Ref Parser

    Parse, resolve, and dereference JSON Schema $ref pointers

JSON Schema Resources

  • Understanding JSON Schema

    A website aiming to provide more accessible documentation for JSON schema

  • JSON Schema Store

    A collection of popular schemas

  • Using JSON Schema

    a Book and GitHub project, showing how JSON Schema can be used for a variety of tasks and in different programming contexts

  • Awesome JSON Schema

    A curated list of awesome JSON Schema resources, tutorials, tools, and more

JSON Schema Validators

  • json-schema-benchmark

    Performance benchmark for Node.js validators

  • is-my-json-valid

    A validator that uses code generation to be extremely fast

  • jsen

    A validator built for speed

  • themis

    A blazing fast validator

  • jsck

    JSON Schema Compiled checK

  • z-schema

    validator written in JavaScript for NodeJS and Browsers

  • jjv

    Javascript Library for Schema Validation

  • request-validator

    Flexible request validator middleware for express and connect

  • tv4

    Tiny Validator

  • ajv

    The fastest validator. Supports v5/6 proposals

  • Medeia Validator

    Compliant (draft-04/06/07) and fast streaming validator written in Kotlin

  • JSON Schema for PHP

    PHP implementation of JSON schema

  • JSON Guard

    A validator for JSON Schema Draft 4

  • jsonschema

    Python implementation of jsonschema

  • JSON Schema Toolkit

    Programmatic building of JSON schemas (recursive field mappings) with validation, a Django JSON Field, and native PostgreSQL JSON type constraints

  • Ruby JSON Schema Validator

    validating against a JSON schema conforming to JSON Schema Draft 4

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