Tools/JSON Formatter
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JSON Formatter & Validator

Beautify, minify, and validate JSON payloads. Errors come directly from your browser's native JavaScript parser, matching what your code experiences at runtime.

Input JSON
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Output

The four errors that cause most invalid JSON

01

Trailing Commas

Legal in modern JavaScript, strictly forbidden in JSON. A comma after the final object property or array element breaks every spec parser.

02

Single Quotes

JSON mandates double quotes around both property keys and string values. Code copied from JS or Python frequently trips on this rule.

03

Unescaped Characters

Literal newlines, unescaped double quotes, or tabs inside string values will cause immediate syntax exceptions.

04

Comments

JSON has no comment syntax. Formats like JSONC or JSON5 are separate extensions and fail strict standard JSON parsers.

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