How to reformat JSON in Notepad

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I need Notepad   to take a json string from this    menu     id    file   value    File   popup     menuitem      value    New    onclick    CreateNewDoc       value    Open    onclick    OpenDoc       value    Close    onclick    CloseDoc           to this       menu        id    file      value    File      popup          menuitem             value    New    onclick    CreateNewDoc              value    Open    onclick    OpenDoc              value    Close    onclick    CloseDoc                    I looked around at all the TextFX options but couldn t find anything that worked

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Download and install this plugin    JSToolNpp   Then perform operations like this Plugins   JSTool   JSFormat  If you don   t want to install plugins  you can perform JSON beautification operations on JSON Formatter

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You can use http   www jsonlint com  to edit your json online if you don t have Notepad

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JSMinNpp plugin will do this job  https   sourceforge net projects jsminnpp

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You require a plugin to format JSON  To install the plugin do the following steps   Open notepad   - gt  ALT P - gt  Plugin Manager - gt  Selcet JSON Viewer - gt  Click Install Restart notepad   Now you can use shortcut to format json as CTRL   ALT  SHIFT   M or ALT P - gt  Plugin Manager - gt  JSON Viewer - gt  Format JSON

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It worked for me in the latest edition to Notepad using the UniversalIndentGui   What I did was under the plugin setting choose Enable Text Auto Update  a window popped up and I selected javascript

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Universal Indent GUI plugin for Notepad   will turn your sample into          menu               id     file    value     File    popup                   menuitem                         value     New    onclick     CreateNewDoc                                                    value     Open    onclick     OpenDoc                                                    value     Close    onclick     CloseDoc

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Notepad 5 8 7 and jsmin 1 7 0 0 works wonderful here   Be careful though  found out jsmin eats the comments the hard way  should have read first

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Update       As of Notepad   v7 6  use Plugin Admin to install JSTool per this answer    INSTALL  Download it from http   sourceforge net projects jsminnpp  and copy JSMinNpp dll to plugin directory of Notepad    Or you can just install  JSTool  from Plugin Manager in Notepad     New Notepad   install and where did PluginManager go  See How to view Plugin Manager in Notepad          menu           id     file        value     File        popup             menuitem              value     New              onclick     CreateNewDoc                            value     Open              onclick     OpenDoc                            value     Close              onclick     CloseDoc                                     Tip  Select the code you want to reformat  then Plugins   JSTool   JSFormat

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It s not an NPP solution  but in a pinch  you can use this online JSON Formatter and then just paste the formatted text into NPP and then select Javascript as the language

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The following Notepad   plugin worked for me as suggested by  SUN  https   sourceforge net projects jsminnpp

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I use 32-bit Notepad   version 7 5 6  I have found that 32-bit JSToolNpp 1 20 0 does a great job  The direct link is  https   sourceforge net projects jsminnpp files Uni JSToolNPP 1 2006 0 uni 32 zip download which is redirected from https   sourceforge net projects jsminnpp   VirusTotal link  https   www virustotal com gui file 008ee0ce889dfd9e96b975cebe6faafe28bc350352e951f3dec97e8e5bec5a07 JSON-Viewer works fine too  but cannot sort the JSON data

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I m using the JSON Viewer plug-in with NPP 5 9 and it seems to work well

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If formatting JSON is the main goal and you have VisualStudio then it is simple and easy     Open Visual Studio File -  New -  File  Select Web in left side panel  Select JSON Copy paste your raw JSON value Press Ctrl   K and Ctrl   D   That s it  you will get formatted JSON Value

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simply go to this link download the dll copy and paste the dll to the plugins folder at notepad     Notepad   plugins restart the notepad    and it should be shown in the list    NOTE  this dll supports 64 bit notepade

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I know you asked about NotePad   but TextMate for OS X can do it via the JSON bundle  its called the  Reformat Document  command

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You can view in Notepad   no problem now  maybe older versions were bugged    for win64  You can find the latest plugin here  https   github com kapilratnani JSON-Viewer releases   The latest zip file contains a  dll file   And then follow the github priject README instructions         Paste the file  NPPJSONViewer dll  to Notepad   plugin folder   open a document containing a JSON string   Select JSON fragment and navigate to plugins JSON Viewer show JSON Viewer or press  Ctrl Alt Shift J    Voila   if the JSON is valid  it will be shown in a Treeview      It should be the same process for win32 but I cannot personally verify it

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If you don t want to install a Notepad   plugin but you have Firefox and a JSON plugin for Firefox  you can select Run - gt  Launch in Firefox  You get the contents formatted as JSON using your Firefox plugin   This is what I personally do

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For Notepad   v 7 6 and above Plugins Admin    is available    Open Menu Plugins   Plugins Admin    Search JSON Viewer Check JSON Viewer in List Click on Install Button Restart Notepad   Select JSON text Go to Plugins   JSON Viewer   Format JSON   Ctrl   Alt   Shift   M     We can install any Notepad   supported plugins using Plugins Admin

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Your best bet is to use one of the latest versions of Eclipse  I am using Eclipse Galileo J2EE and Eclipse Ganymede J2EE   Create a JavaScript file  then create a variable   var jsonObject     menu     id    file   value    File   popup     menuitem      value    New    onclick    CreateNewDoc       value    Open    onclick    OpenDoc       value    Close    onclick    CloseDoc            Lastly  hit CTRL SHIFT F and voila  You have a nicely indented JSON Object  I  too  am looking for a Notepad   JSON formatter  and I very well may be forced to develop an Npp plugin some short time in the future

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For those of us behind a corporate firewall with no direct access to the internet  using the Plugins Admin won t work   To use the JSMinNpp plugin  you can t just  quot copy the dll to the plugins folder quot    It needs to live inside a folder called  quot JSMinNpp quot  inside the plugins folder  After doing that and restarting Notepad    I was able to see the  quot JSTool quot  menu option under the Plugins menu  Tested with Notepad   7 8 2 and 7 8 9

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As per the latest notepad    updated answer  Install JSON Viewer Open notepad   go to Plugins -- gt  click Plugins Admin    In Plugins Admin window search for JSON Viewer and click on Install  New after installing plugin  this is how you can view file in JSON format

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I personally use JSON Viewer since the Notepad   plugin doesn t work any more   EDIT - 24th May 2012 I advise that you download the JSMin plugin for Notepad as mentioned in the answer  This works well for me in the latest version  v6 1 2 at time of writing   EDIT - 7th November 2017 As per  danday74 s comment below  JSMin is now JSToolNpp  Also  please be aware that the JSON Viewer tool is on Codeplex which will likely disappear in the near future   Given the above  this answer is no longer relevant and you should use Dan H s answer instead  My answer is simply here for posterity

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I know this thread is old but I recently ran into a problem with JSToolNPP not being compatible with my newly updated N    I did find a replacement that seems to work   http   sourceforge net projects nppjsonviewer   Use at your own risk  ofc    standard disclaimer from me when linking anything outside the SExchange  fyi

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