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awesome-json

A curated list of awesome JSON libraries and resources.
https://github.com/burningtree/awesome-json

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  • Format Extensions

    • survey.js - JSON based survey library.
    • survey.js - JSON based survey library.
    • survey.js - JSON based survey library.
    • 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.
    • 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 Table Schema - a simple schema for tabular data
    • 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.
    • survey.js - JSON based survey library.
    • survey.js - JSON based survey library.
    • survey.js - JSON based survey library.
    • JSON6 - JSON for Humans (ES6).
    • JSON-stat - Simple lightweight format for data dissemination.
    • /contribute.json - Making open source contribution information easier to access, across projects.
    • NDJSON - a standard for delimiting JSON in stream protocols.
    • J<sub>ack</sub>SON: 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.
    • /contribute.json - Making open source contribution information easier to access, across projects.
    • Sequence JSON - A proposal for a standard way of creating music sequence data in JSON.
    • NDJSON - a standard for delimiting JSON in stream protocols.
    • survey.js - JSON based survey library.
    • JsonML - A compact format for transporting XML-based markup as JSON which allows it to be losslessly converted back to its original form.
  • Services

    • Exchange Rate API - A simple and free API for currency exchange rate data.
    • Exchange Rate API - A simple and free API for currency exchange rate data.
    • Myjson - A simple store for your web or mobile app.
    • jsonpad - a simple JSON storage platform.
    • JSONProxy - Simple HTTP proxy that enables cross-domain requests to any JSON API.
    • Telize - JSON IP and GeoIP REST API.
  • Binary Serialization

    • MessagePack - An extremely efficient object serialization library.
    • UBJSON - The universally compatible format specification for binary JSON.
    • JSON BinPack - Space-efficient binary JSON serialization format based on JSON Schema.
    • PSON - Protocol JSON, super efficient binary serialization format.
    • JSON BinPack - Space-efficient binary JSON serialization format based on JSON Schema.
    • BSON - Binary JSON.
    • CBOR - Concise Binary Object Representation.
  • Applications

    • Visual JSON - simple JSON pretty-viewer for Mac OS X.
    • JSONExport - convert a object to a class of one of the currently supported languages.
    • Visual JSON - simple JSON pretty-viewer for Mac OS X. (inactive)
    • Dadroit JSON Viewer - Very fast JSON Viewer, supporting huge (multi gigabytes) files, JSON log (JSON-Lines and ndjson).
    • Dadroit JSON Viewer - Very fast JSON Viewer, supporting huge (multi gigabytes) files, JSON log (JSON-Lines and ndjson).
  • Browser Extensions

    • JSON Browser - browser/)) - Browse a JSON web with the help of JSON schemas.
    • JSONView - View JSON documents in the browser.
    • JSONAce - Formats & syntax highlights JSON viewed inside of the web browser using the ACE editor.
    • JSONView - safari)) - A port of the JSONView Firefox extension that formats and syntax highlights JSON viewed inside of the browser
    • JSON Formatter - formatter)) - Makes JSON easy to read. Open source.
    • JSON Viewer - viewer)) - It is a Chrome extension for printing JSON and JSONP.
    • JSON Finder - Browse like you do it in Finder.
    • JSON Viewer Pro - JSON-Viewer) - An open source Chrome extension for browsing JSON with syntax highlighting and folding, or as a visual graph.
    • Discoverable JSON - json)) - Gron inspired Extension. Convert a JSON document into javascript expressions. Comes with filter, remove, find-and-replace capabilities.
  • Command-line tools

    • json - A "json" command for massaging JSON on your Unix command line.
    • jshon - A parser designed for maximum convenience within the shell.
    • gron - Convert a JSON file into discrete assignments that are greppable.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • livejq - An alternative `jq` implementation in rust for continuous parsing without crashing on invalid JSON
    • json-search - A small tool to search for objects/values in json files.
    • 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.
    • jid - Incremental Digger. Drill down JSON interactively by using filtering queries like jq.
    • jiq - It's `jid` with `jq`. You can drill down interactively by using `jq` filtering queries.
    • jv - jv (for jsonviewer) helps you view your JSON.
    • 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.
    • jshon - A parser designed for maximum convenience within the shell.
    • json - A "json" command for massaging JSON on your Unix command line.
    • jarg - Shorthand JSON and form encoding syntax in the shell.
    • jl - Functional sed for JSON.
  • 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.
    • 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)
    • 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.
    • 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
    • vat-rates - VAT rates for all EU countries.
    • MTG JSON - Up to date Magic the Gathering card data.
    • Heartstone JSON - Up to date Hearthstone card data.
    • countries - World countries.
    • getCountries() - Generator for custom Countries data.
    • country.io - Various country related datasets, as JSON inc currency, country codes, names and more
  • 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
    • JSONEdit - User friendly, visual editor built as an AngularJS directive.
  • Frontend components

    • jsTree - jquery plugin, that provides interactive trees. (jQuery)
    • JSON editor jQuery plugin - component for you web apps/pages. (jQuery)
    • jqTree - Widget for displaying a tree structure in html. (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
    • jqTree - Widget for displaying a tree structure in html. (jQuery)
  • Libraries

    • jsmn - A minimalistic parser in C. It can be easily integrated into the resource-limited projects or embedded systems.
    • json-schema - JSON Schema library for Haskell
    • hjsonschema - JSON Schema Draft 4 library for Haskell
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • SBJson - Parse one or more chunks of data.
    • jsonpickle - Library for serializing any arbitrary object graph.
    • metamagic.json - An ultra-fast Python 3 implementation of a JSON encoder.
    • FracturedJson - A formatter that produces human-readable but fairly compact output.
    • jshn - JSON parsing and generation library in for shell scripts (Ash/Bash)
    • SwiftyJSON - The better way to deal with data in Swift.
    • Jansson - A C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating data.
    • 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-java - A reference implementation.
    • Fast JSON Processor
    • 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.
    • JsonHilo - Minimal lossless parse event streaming, akin to SAX.
    • JSONKit - Objective-C library.
    • 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
    • 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 [JSON API standard](https://jsonapi.org).
    • 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.
    • metamagic.json - An ultra-fast Python 3 implementation of a JSON encoder.
    • json-schema - JSON Schema library for Haskell
    • hjsonschema - JSON Schema Draft 4 library for Haskell
  • Online tools

  • Schema Specifications

    • Itemscript - Language for validating and specifying values.
    • Kwalify - A parser, schema validator, and data binding tool
    • Rx - Simple, Extensible Schemata.
    • Kwalify - A parser, schema validator, and data binding tool
    • Itemscript - Language for validating and specifying values.
    • JSON Schema - a JSON based format for defining the structure of JSON data.
  • Supersets

    • HOCON - Human-Optimized Config Object Notation.
    • HanSON - JSON for Humans - with unquoted identifiers, multi-line strings and comments.
    • μson - a shorthand for JSON.
    • 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

  • Templates

    • Jsonnet - A domain specific configuration language that helps you define JSON data.
    • json2html - HTML templating library with wrappers for both jQuery and Node.js. (Javascript)
    • json2html - HTML templating library with wrappers for both jQuery and Node.js. (Javascript)
    • rabl - General ruby templating with json, bson, xml, plist and msgpack support. (Ruby)
  • Testing

    • JSON Test - Testing platform for services utilizing JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).
    • 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

    • FracturedJsonVsc - Formatter that produces human-readable but fairly compact output.
    • 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.
    • nvim-jqx - Browse and query json files in neovim from the quickfix window. (Lua)
  • Transformations

    • deepjson - A better way to load big json config files. (node.js)
    • 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)
    • 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.
    • 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)
    • deepjson - A better way to load big json config files. (node.js)
  • Queries

    • JMESPath - A query language for JSON.
    • 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)
    • JSONPath - XPath implementation. (Javascript/PHP)
    • JSONata - Query and transformation language used in Node-RED, supports function expressions.
    • dasel - Query and update data structures using selectors from the command line. Comparable to [jq](https://github.com/jqlang/jq) / [yq](https://github.com/kislyuk/yq) but supports JSON, YAML, TOML and XML with zero runtime dependencies.
    • JSON Mask - Tiny language and engine for selecting specific parts of a JS object, hiding the rest. (Javascript)
    • JSONSelect - CSS-like selectors. (Javascript)
    • searchjs - A library for filtering based on a json SQL-like language.
    • json-rel - Transparent references in JSON.
  • JSON Schema Frontend components

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

    • JSONSchema.net - JSON Schema generator from JSON object.
    • 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

    • 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.
    • JSON Schema Store - A collection of popular schemas.
    • JSON Schema Store - A collection of popular schemas.
    • Understanding JSON Schema - A website aiming to provide more accessible documentation for JSON schema.
    • 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 Guard - A validator for JSON Schema Draft 4.
    • JSON Guard - A validator for JSON Schema Draft 4.
    • 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
    • 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.
  • 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)
  • Linters

    • jsonlint - Parser and validator with a CLI. (Javascript)
    • JSON Lint - PHP linter. (PHP)
    • 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.
  • 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.