JSON live editor

Live editor for JSON documents

What is JSON live editor?

The 'JSON live editor' is a Chrome extension primarily designed for effortless manipulation of JSON documents. It functions both online and offline, featuring an integrated HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code editor. It automatically detects JSON documents and accommodates advanced functionalities such as syntax highlighting, search, replace, and auto-complete. The tool also supports versioning using local storage, and easy sharing of code via URLs. It even goes a step further to enable users to save and drop code to/from the file system.

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By: Stephan Ringel

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Users: 1,000+

Rating: 3.43 (14)

Version: 1.2.1 (Last updated: 2019-03-08)

Creation date: 2019-03-08

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

*://*/*
<all_urls>

Size: 258.05K

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 25048 ▼ 54

Other rankings

#3078 in Developer Tools ▼ 2

#25 in css editor keyword 28 ▼ 1

#49 in json keyword 76 ▲ 6

#75 in autocomplete keyword 10 ▲ 3

#185 in live keyword 42 ▼ 20

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Summary

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Little online and offline HTML, CSS and JavaScript code editor for messing around with JSON documents. For example, this tool will be useful if you want to manipulate and display JSON data outputted by a REST API.

The editor will be activated automatically in the browser if a JSON document is detected (e.g. with http://jsondoc.eu01.aws.af.cm/api/jsondoc).

Features :

HTML / CSS / JavaScript editor with syntax highlighting, search, replace and autocomplete
Live code preview
Drop code from File System
Save code to File System
Versioning using browser’s history and local storage
Easy sharing via URL
JSON Validator (invalid JSON is not editable)
Key shortcuts:

cmd + s / ctrl + s => live update / save
cmd + e / ctrl + e => toggle preview / code editor

User reviews

it wont let me edit anything

Robert Delaney, 2020-12-13

For file// links, shows the HTML for some reason, doesn't work on online JSON stuff that doesn't identify itself as JSON content type

Rubat, 2016-09-15

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Safety

Risk impact

JSON live editor may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.