Looking for recomendations for JSON viewers on Windows 11?

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MrRogers <mrrogersmaddenfilmroom@gmail.com> wrote:

Looking for recomendations for JSON viewers on Windows 11?

You mean besides a text viewer or editor? JSON is a text file.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON
"JSON (JavaScript Object Notation, pronounced /?d?e?s?n/ or /?d?e??s?n/)
is an open standard file format and data interchange format that uses human-readable text to store and transmit data objects consisting of
name?value pairs and arrays (or other serializable values)."

Same is true for XML files. They're just text, too.

Here is an example of a JSON file:
https://json.org/example.html

Some JSON authors are slobs. They don't show formatting, structure, and
may smash it into one line. Perhaps what you really are asking about is
a JSON viewer that can prettify (aka beautify) the JSON file content.
For example, with the JSON plug-in installed in Notepad++, you can
prettify the JSON content in a file. See:

"How to Format and View JSON in Notepad++" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9RGx2gt1fQ

If you are new to writing JSON files, and want something to help with
the formatting other than a local program, there are online formatters
and validators, like:

https://jsonformatter.org/

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On Mon, 3/9/2026 5:34 PM, MrRogers wrote:

Looking for recomendations for JSON viewers on Windows 11?

This web page provides a tool that the runtime runs on
your PC and not in the cloud. You can browse for a file
if you want, and open it that way. Or copy/pasta. Or
drag and drop.

https://beautifier.io/

"Beautify JavaScript, JSON, React.js, HTML, CSS, SCSS, and SASS"

Once the content is formatted, you can Select All, Copy
and Paste it somewhere else.

Tested on: https://microsoftedge.github.io/Demos/json-dummy-data/128KB-min.json

Naturally, there are multiple web sites that offer such a tool.

Paul

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On 2026-03-10 01:49, VanguardLH wrote:

Some JSON authors are slobs. They don't show formatting, structure, and
may smash it into one line.

This is done deliberately in web programming to speed up communications between the serving site and the client browser by minimising the size
of the data that needs to be transferred over the internet. It's not
just JSON that is deliberately 'crunched' in this way, but everything web-related: html, javascript, etc.

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