Show HN: behold, jsonifier

10 pointsby Skywing15 anni fa11 comments

Just a simple tool I hacked together last night. I wanted to paste a bunch of JSON for reference in an IRC channel, but the JSON that I wanted to paste was not formatted. I didn't quickly find a pastebin that formatted JSON for me so I just made one.

It's probably so simple that it's borderline useless, but here it is!

http://jsonifier.com/

example output: http://jsonifier.com/paste/4e3f84b46f3b792dde000000

11 comments

danest15 anni fa

This looks awesome, I have been using this for a while now http://jsonviewer.stack.hu/

Skywing15 anni fa

nice. i did not end up finding that one last night.

ideamonk15 anni fa

Neat and clean. I'd definitely find it useful while sharing ugly JSONs with my team. Since you're providing this service for free, just out of interest, what are you hosting it on? What're your plans for sustaining it when usage goes "Up and at 'em, Atom Ant!"?

Skywing15 anni fa

Hosted on Linode, at the moment. If I see that people are finding it useful then I have no problem sustaining it myself.

JW_0000015 anni fa

A small bug: when you go to an invalid URL (e.g. http://jsonifier.com/paste/abcdef), an "Internal Server Error" is shown, instead of a nice error message.

Skywing15 anni fa

Ah. Thanks. Will patch that up right now. :)

edit: Provides clean error message now.

ipmb15 anni fa

Recent versions of Python have a JSON prettifier baked in. On OS X, if you have ugly JSON in your clipboard, simply run this:

    $ pbpaste | python -mjson.tool

Skywing15 anni fa

I'm doing essentially the same thing with the submitted JSON. The result of that would be what I am storing in the database.

mtogo15 anni fa

Wow, that's actually pretty awesome.

shthap3ns15 anni fa

Doesn't JSONLint do this? Or am I missing something?

Skywing15 anni fa

clickable: http://jsonifier.com and http://jsonifier.com/paste/4e3f84b46f3b792dde000000