JSON Formatter & Validator

JSON Formatter & Validator
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Validate, format, and minify JSON data with instant feedback.

  • Syntax Validation
  • Pretty Formatting
  • Minification
  • Key Sorting
  • Structure Analysis
JSON Statistics

Process JSON to see statistics

Common JSON Errors
  • Missing quotes around property names
  • Trailing commas after last element
  • Single quotes instead of double
  • Unescaped characters in strings
  • Missing closing brackets/braces

Formatting and Validating JSON

Paste JSON and the tool validates it as you type, pointing at the exact line and column when parsing fails - the fastest way to find a stray trailing comma or an unescaped quote in an API response. Formatting, minification and key sorting all run locally in your browser, so payloads with real data never leave your machine.

Two habits save most JSON debugging time: format responses before trying to read them, and validate config files before deploying them. When you need to see what changed between two payloads, the JSON Diff tool compares them structurally instead of line by line. For config work, JSON converts cleanly to YAML and back, and spreadsheet exports convert from CSV to JSON. If the JSON you are inspecting is the payload of an access token, decode it with the JWT decoder instead - it splits the header and claims for you.

JSON Questions

A text format for structured data that's become the default for web APIs. Curly braces for objects, square brackets for arrays, double quotes for strings. If you've built anything web-related, you've seen it.

Paste it here and try to format it. If it breaks, you'll see exactly where and why - trailing comma, missing bracket, wrong quotes, whatever.

Minified strips all whitespace for smaller payloads - use it in production. Formatted adds indentation and newlines - use it when you're trying to read the thing.

Trailing commas (JSON hates them), single quotes (must be double), unquoted keys (not allowed), and comments (also not allowed - JSON isn't JavaScript).