JSON Selection Formatter
Unescape, format and syntax-highlight JSON in a web page.
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Details
- External ID
- 1268268
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- JSON Selection Formatter
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.32882190095355274
- Tags
- Chrome Extensions, Productivity, Developer Tools, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Chrome extension that unescapes, formats and syntax-highlights any piece of JSON selected in a web page. Why it stands out: • Simpler • More flexible (any selected text can be formatter) • More adaptable (wider range of JSON input, including encoded)
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer utilities and programming libraries
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- browser json formatter and syntax highlighter for developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A Chrome extension that extracts selected text, runs JSON.parse / unescaping, and renders syntax highlighting via standard web libraries can be created in a few hours with an AI assistant.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 124 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #65 of 125 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 336 days after the earliest competitor.
- JSON Formatter - Browser Tools · ph · 2026-09-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- JSON Formatter & Validator · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- JSON Object Validator · ph · 2026-09-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Instant JSON Formatter · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- JSON Lens · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- BestJSON · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- json-toolkit · github · 2026-09-29 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- jsoncsvonline · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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