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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

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

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

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!"?

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

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.

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

edit: Provides clean error message now.

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

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

Wow, that's actually pretty awesome.

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

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

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