# JSON Bonsai

> Beautiful JSON viewer: interactive tree, JMESPath queries, search, schema inference, and base16 theming with 13 bundled themes.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/json-bonsai](https://chrome-stats.com/d/json-bonsai)

## Overview

- **ID:** `json-bonsai`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** hackslashdash
- **Category:** web-development
- **Daily users:** 3
- **Version:** 1.5.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-25
- **First published:** 2026-06-10
- **Size:** 589 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/json-bonsai/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/json-bonsai/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/json-bonsai/privacy/)

## Description

<strong>JSON Bonsai turns any raw JSON page into a fast, interactive viewer — built to stay smooth on payloads with 100,000+ nodes.</strong>

Open any URL that returns JSON and JSON Bonsai automatically replaces the wall of text with a clean, navigable tree. Then prune it, search it, query it, or reshape it — without the browser grinding to a halt.

<strong>Five ways to look at your data</strong>
- Tree — virtualized rendering that scrolls smoothly even on huge payloads, with collapsible nodes and depth controls
- Table — sortable, virtualized rows for arrays of objects (works on query results too)
- Formatted — clean, pretty-printed JSON
- Raw — the original response, untouched
- Schema — an inferred JSON Schema (draft-07) of your data

<strong>Find and reshape anything</strong>
- JMESPath query bar with autocomplete and history — filter and reshape the JSON; the result renders as a fully interactive tree
- Content search with regex mode, run in a background worker, with match-to-match navigation
- Hover any property to see its full JSON path; click to pin and copy
- Copy any subtree, or copy exactly what the active view shows

<strong>Gets the details right</strong>
- Lossless big numbers — 64-bit IDs and high-precision decimals display and copy exactly as sent, where the browser's own parser would silently corrupt them
- Syntax highlighting for keys, strings, numbers, booleans, and null; URLs become clickable links

<strong>Made to feel like yours</strong>
- base16 theming — 13 bundled color schemes plus your own custom themes, with auto / dark / light switching
- Per-site memory — your view mode and tree depth are remembered per origin and restored on your next visit
- Keyboard-driven — <code>1</code>–<code>8</code> set tree depth, <code>0</code> expands all, <code>Q</code> queries, <code>⌘F</code> searches, <code>C</code> copies

Works in both Chrome and Firefox.

## Rankings

- #55,617 — Overall
- #50 — json

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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