JSON Editor

JSON Editor is a must-have editor for JSON, JSON5 and JSON Lines data. In a clean, uncluttered and user-friendly interface, it allows you to create, visualize, modify, validate, format and save your JSON documents.

Along with the included HTTP Client, is a powerful tool to inspect and debug your API endpoints.

JSON Editor has the smarts needed to make the minimum changes when editing a file, even in the "outline" mode.

This is especially useful when you keep the files in a repository, because only the relevant changes will be shown when diff-ing the edited files.

MAJOR FEATURES

• Supported JSON formats: JSON (classic), JSON Lines, JSON5

• View and edit your JSON documents in "outline" or "text" modes

• The "outline" mode offers a great and error proof way to manipulate your JSON, by allowing you to easily add, reorder, delete, copy & paste the items

• The "text" mode offers a quick way to interact with the raw text which makes up the JSON and to investigate invalid JSONs

OUTLINE MODE

• Multiple selection - select multiple siblings and perform standard operations (i.e. cut, copy, paste, delete, reorder)

• Sort selected items or all the children of a parent item

• Auto-detect if the document is human readable or compact, and preserve this format

• Find & Replace - configure where the Find (and replace) will take place: in "Key" column or "Value" column or both.

• Copy items as: Swift objects, Objective-C objects (both modern and classic syntax), JSON Path strings, XML plists

• Embed selected items in Array or Object (dictionary)

• Duplicate items

• Bulk edit the "value" of multiple items

• Increase and decrease font size for better readability

• The JSON5 comments can be viewed in the leftmost column by hovering the cursor over the indicator

• Undo & redo

• Customization options in "Settings/Preferences -> View & Edit -> Outline Editor"

TEXT MODE

• Syntax coloring, auto-indentation and line numbers

• Customize the syntax colors, both for the light appearance and for the dark/black one

• Validate the JSON document

• Highlight of the validation errors, along with a description of them

• Make the JSON document human readable or compact, even if it is not entirely valid

• Find & Replace

• Increase and decrease font size for better readability

• Undo & redo

• Customization options available in "Settings -> View & Edit -> Text Editor"

HTTP CLIENT

• Open HTTP Client window via "Window -> HTTP Client"

• HTTP Client allows you to perform HTTP requests. While its main purpose is to ease the fetch of JSON content from a server, it can be used to get or upload any content, including binary. The following HTTP verbs are supported: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD

• You can create folders to group the requests. Folders inside folders are supported, too! This is handy to group the projects or APIs you're working with

• Automatically detects if response is text or binary, and for binary responses will shows its preview, while also allowing you save it to the desired file

• For response bodies which are text, you will have the option to beautify them as JSON and to open them in a new JSON Editor document

• Both HTTP authentication (basic, digest) and Proxy authentication, with Keychain integration, are supported

• OAuth 2.0 is also supported. In addition to the built-in providers you may add your custom ones, too

• Once you have added and setup an OAuth 2.0 authorization you can attach it to a HTTP request - JSON Editor will take care of refreshing and attaching access token to the HTTP request

• Export and import HTTP requests and OAuth authorizations

OTHER FEATURES

• Quick Look Preview extension - allows you to preview the JSON files in Finder

• Black appearance - for those who enjoy an even darker appearance

• Folder Navigation - browse folders' contents from and choose JSON files to make quick edits or to view their content

• Fullscreen

• Versions

• Services

• Command-line/Terminal integration

• AppleScript (incl. JXA)