JSON Escape / Unescape

Turn any text into a safe JSON string value, turn an escaped string with \n and \" back into readable text, or stringify a whole JSON object so it can be embedded inside another string. Results update as you type.

How to use the JSON Escape / Unescape

1. Choose a mode: Escape (text to JSON string), Unescape (JSON string to text), Stringify JSON (object to string) or Parse stringified (string back to object).
2. Paste your input on the left. The result appears on the right instantly.
3. Set the options, such as wrapping the result in double quotes or escaping non-ASCII characters as \uXXXX.
4. Press Swap to send the output back as input in the opposite mode, which is a quick way to check a round trip.
5. Copy or download the result.

JSON escape sequences

Only these escapes exist in JSON. Sequences that work in JavaScript or other languages, such as \', \x41 or \0, are invalid in a JSON document.

Escape vs. stringify: an example

Escaping the text Say "hi" gives Say \"hi\", which you can place between double quotes in JSON: {"msg": "Say \"hi\""}.

Stringifying the object {"msg": "hi"} gives "{\"msg\":\"hi\"}": a single JSON string whose content is JSON. This is common in message queues, logs, AWS event payloads and database columns that store JSON as text. Use Parse stringified to turn it back into a readable object, even when it was stringified more than once.

Doing it in code

In JavaScript, JSON.stringify(text) escapes a string and adds the quotes; JSON.parse(str) reverses it. In Python use json.dumps(text) and json.loads(s); pass ensure_ascii=False to keep non-ASCII characters as is. In PHP use json_encode with JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES | JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE to avoid \/ and \uXXXX output.

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