API Response Formatter
Format, validate, inspect, search, and transform JSON API responses with interactive tree view and JSONPath.
TL;DR: API Response Formatter is a free, browser-based tool that lets you format, validate, inspect, search, and transform JSON API responses with interactive tree view and JSONPath.
{
"status": "ready",
"message": "Paste API response to format"
}
Response Metrics & Topology
Transform API Response
About the API Response Formatter
API Response Formatter formats and colors raw REST, GraphQL, and Webhook response bodies (JSON, XML, HTML, plain text) with status code indicators, response header parsing, and syntax highlighting.
How to Use the API Response Formatter
- Paste your raw API response string or webhook payload.
- Select response format (Auto-Detect, JSON, XML, or Text).
- Click 'Format Response' to beautify structure and highlight syntax.
- Copy formatted response or save as a mock fixture file.
Expert Tips for API Response Formatter
- Mock API Fixtures: Create clean, beautified JSON mock fixtures for unit tests and frontend component development.
- Debug Webhooks: Format messy single-line Stripe, GitHub, or Shopify webhook payloads in one click.
- Format Headers & Body: Cleanly separates HTTP response headers from the payload body.
Related Guides & Tutorials
- Json Formatting For Developers — Learn in-depth concepts, best practices, and expert tips.
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100% Client-Side Privacy Guarantee
All processing runs locally inside your browser using JavaScript and HTML5 APIs. Your data, files, and inputs are never uploaded to any remote server. Complete privacy by design.
Frequently Asked Questions
- No. 100% of the parsing, validation, formatting, and conversion runs locally in your browser web engine using JavaScript. Confidential API tokens, user emails, and database records never leave your machine.
- When you switch to the Interactive Tree tab and click on any key or value, the tool automatically constructs the exact normalized JSONPath (for example,
$.data.items[0].id) and places it in the inspector bar ready to copy. - Yes. The validator inspects the JSON payload for common status fields (such as
status,statusCode,code,error, or RFC 7807title/detail) and highlights the corresponding HTTP status pill (e.g. 200 OK, 422 Unprocessable, 500 Error). - Yes. In the Advanced Transform Hub below the workspace, select TypeScript to automatically generate deduplicated TypeScript interface definitions inferred from your live JSON payload.
- Because the tool runs entirely on your device, it can easily handle multi-megabyte JSON responses. For very large payloads (> 5MB), minification and tree expansion are optimized to prevent browser freezing.
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