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Fetch, filter and manipulate your JSON inside the browser

How HN reacted

JSON Browse

Debated

Real support and real criticism

4 positive, 4 neutral or mixed, 6 critical. Score -0.18

LikedUseful jq-style filtering in the browser

ObjectedProxy routes requests through the maker's server, so credentials in URLs are a privacy risk

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Shown by jorde on Jan 16, 2017. Click the card to turn it over.

138points

26comments

#287of 2,242 in 2017

Top 13%of 2017 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

4 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 6 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score -0.18.

Idea: 4 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

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Proxy routes requests through the maker's server, so credentials in URLs are a privacy risk
From 1 comment
- Pretty cool, but there should be a warning not to enter in API credentials (through the URI) on this page, as the request is proxied to jsonbrowse.com
  snug on HN
Devtools already show JSON well enough
From 1 comment
- Chrome devtools? I feel the collapsed tree visualization of parsed JSON is already sufficient. I'll just access the API I need within the authentication context of my app.…
  jordache on HN
Demo hit GitHub API rate limit
From 1 comment
- Looks like the HN effect is happening already -- the "Demo" link to Github shows this: ``` { "message": "API rate limit exceeded for 52.53.190.53. (But here's the good news:…
  nacs on HN

JSON to JavaScript object conversion
From 1 comment
- I think the most useful feature here is JSON -> JS conversion. Relatively often I find myself copying and pasting some JSON into a JS file then manually deleting / regexing away…
  mjmasn on HN
Filtering of nested keys, not only top level
From 1 comment
- Nice tool Suggestion : Filtering seems to work only on object keys at the outermost level (e.g full_name in demo). It would be nice to be able to filter inner keys as well (e.g…
  ssreeniv on HN
Limit response size and timeout in proxy
From 1 comment
- By the looks of it, I could just throw at it some response that is massive and it would still attempt to grab it? If this is really being just run as a proxy setup, the…
  dvcc on HN

Why use this instead of Postman or RESTClient
From 1 comment
- why would I use this over something like postman or RESTClient?
  PretzelFisch on HN
Console text unreadable for colour-blind users
From 1 comment
- I'm colour-blind, and Firefox the text in the console is completely unreadable to me. The Firefox console background is grey (I think), while the text is blue or purple (I think)…
  GordonS on HN

Chrome/Firefox devtools
From 2 comments
- Chrome devtools? I feel the collapsed tree visualization of parsed JSON is already sufficient. I'll just access the API I need within the authentication context of my app.…
  jordache on HN
- Just wondering but are you aware that you can change the color scheme of the development tools? Changing the scheme also updates the colors of the console. There's at least 3…
  giancarlostoro on HN
jq
From 2 comments
- This is really impressive. Another good JSON tool that I would recommend is jq which has been on HN a few times: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
  jorde on HN
- That gets you decently far, especially with small JSON responses. You can't filter with any tree display though, which is what I normally reach to jq for. Being able to filter an…
  amw-zero on HN
jsonlint
From 1 comment
- Updated my jsonlint.com bookmark to jsonbrowse.com. Thanks for the nifty tool!
  travelton on HN
Postman
From 1 comment
- why would I use this over something like postman or RESTClient?
  PretzelFisch on HN
lodash
From 1 comment
- write a quick lodash method call to filter your collection. given the consistent nature of data collections I almost never have a need to examine the full dataset via some front…
  jordache on HN