Which programs can I use to visualize a JSON File?

Question

I need a program to visualize a json response from a URL or a json file, which organizes the data so it's more human readable. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I use JsonLint, a web based validator and reformatter for JSON. Upon validation, it also reformats the JSON file so that it is easier to read.

Answer 2

If you are looking for an interactive online app, http://jsbeautifier.org/ works great and there are many suggestions for integrating the functionality into other environments.

You can either execute the core of jsbeautifier (beautify-cl.js) in a hosted js runtime or attempt to re-engineer it in the language of your choice.

If you need to reformat JSON at runtime in .net, I can suggest JSON.Net.

Answer 3

To toot my own horn, I've also written a JSON visualizer - it can even fetch a remote url and visualize the JSON it returns.

You can find it at http://json.bloople.net.