Compare Chrome extensions: JSON Viewer vs JSON Formatter

Stats JSON Viewer JSON Viewer JSON Formatter JSON Formatter
User count 2,000,000+ 2,000,000+
Average rating 4.54 4.58
Rating count 1,065 1,837
Last updated 2020-12-23 2024-03-28
Size 317.44K 20.34K
Version 0.18.1 0.7.3
Short description
The most beautiful and customizable JSON/JSONP highlighter that your eyes have ever seen. Open source at https://goo.gl/fmphc7 Makes JSON easy to read. Open source.
Full summary

It is a Chrome extension for printing JSON and JSONP.

Notes:

  • This extension might crash with other JSON highlighters/formatters, you may need to disable them
  • To highlight local files and incognito tabs you have to manually enable these options on the extensions page
  • Sometimes when the plugin updates chrome leaves the old background process running and revokes some options, like the access to local files. When this happen just recheck the option that everything will work again
  • Works on local files (if you enable this in chrome://extensions)

Features

  • Syntax highlighting
  • 27 built-in themes
  • Collapsible nodes
  • Clickable URLs (optional)
  • URL does not matter (the content is analysed to determine if its a JSON or not)
  • Inspect your json typing "json" in the console
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The original JSON Formatter, now with optional dark mode 🌚

Auto-formats JSON when you load it in a browser tab.

FEATURES

  • Fast, even on very long JSON pages
  • Dark mode
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Collapsible trees, with indent guides
  • Clickable URLs
  • Negligible performance impact on non-JSON pages (less than 1 millisecond)
  • Works on any valid JSON page – URL doesn't matter
  • Buttons for toggling between raw and parsed JSON
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