awesome-json
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A curated list of awesome JSON libraries and resources.
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A curated list of JSON libraries and resources for various use cases
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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
Command-line tools / jq
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
- country.io
Various country related datasets, as JSON inc currency, country codes, names and more
countries
World countries
- MTG JSON
Up to date Magic the Gathering card data
- Heartstone JSON
Up to date Hearthstone card data
- getCountries()
Generator for custom Countries data
Data modeling
JSONModel
Magical Data Modelling Framework. (Objective-C)
Data generation
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
Online tools
- JSONLint
The JSON Validator
- JSONCompare
The Advanced Version of the JSON Linter
- JSONMate
JSON editor, inspector and beautifier
- JSON Editor online
A web-based tool to view, edit and format
- Collapsible JSON Formatter
Formatter and Colorer of Raw Code
- JSON Formatter and Validator
Formatter to help with debugging
- JSON Generator
Tool for generating random data
- FakeJSON
Web API to quickly generate fake data for your application
- JSON to CSV
A free, in-browser JSON to CSV converter
- CSV to JSON
Easy, privacy-friendly and offline-first online csv to json converter
- json2csharp
Generate c# classes from a json string or url
- JSON Utils
Site for generating C#, VB.Net, and Javascript classes from JSON
- geojson.io
Simply edit GeoJSON map data
- jq play
A playground for jq
- json2yaml
Convert JSON to YAML online
- JSON Selector Generator
A simple GUI for generating the selectors to access
- JSON.fr
Fully client-side validator and formatter
- ObjGen
Online live JSON generator
- JSONPlaceholder
Fake Online REST API for Testing and Prototyping
- Extends Class
Diff tool to compare two files
- JSON Schema Validate API
A simple and free JSON Schema Validation API
- JSONPerf
A Visual, Unbiased and Up-to-Date JSON Performance Benchmark
- FracturedJson
Formatter that produces human-readable but fairly compact output
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
- JSON Tutorial
An introductory tutorial on JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
- JSON - Rosetta Code
Basic operations in different languages (57 languages in this moment)
- What is JSON and how to use it
Video tutorial for beginners
- jq Primer: Munging JSON Data
How jq can be used to process JSON files just as effectively as traditional Unix tools
Related formats
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
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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