JSON parser

[adrian]

I have been using this for a while now and it is incredibly useful. They have also just released a beta version which is so clean

I am sure there are other tools out there like it, but this one has made my life so much easier many times.

http://json.parser.online.fr/beta/

Be sure to check all the options under the settings cog!

[Marty Walker]

I've been doing a bit with JSON recently and found something similar (although not as nice): http://jsonviewer.stack.hu/

[kongondo]

If you are looking for pretty:  http://www.json-generator.com/ and http://www.jsoneditoronline.org/

...and cool: http://jsonmate.com/

...and complicated? http://jsoneditor.net/

[adrian]

Wow - you've outdone me with the visualization dendogram from jsonmate

Check out the skyscrapers demo:

[teppo]

.. and then there's var_dump(json_decode($json)).

Seriously speaking, though, the quality of these tools is amazing. I'm having hard time imagining where I would use any of those, but they're all totally cool nevertheless

[adrian]

Hey teppo - the key thing for me is the ability to quickly collapse objects and arrays to make it easier to see what's what and avoid endless scrolling.

[teppo]

Makes sense

I usually do that with Chrome dev tools. It's not that pretty, but handles the job of collapsing, displaying data types and lengths etc. quite well.

[adrian]

True, true - I use that sometimes too when dealing with small json snippets, but head to one of those others when things get larger. Lots of options I guess - in general it blows me away all of the cool dev tools we have available now - almost too many - could spend all your days investigating new things and not getting anything done

[Marty Walker]

And for those of us in need of a JSON to CSV convertor: http://konklone.io/json/