Developers keep pasting JSON into online formatters and leaking secrets — so I built json-explorer
Developers often face privacy risks when using online JSON formatters to debug API responses. To address this issue, a new tool called json-explorer has been created, allowing users to visualize JSON files locally without uploading sensitive data. This tool provides an interactive interface with features like collapsible trees and live search, ensuring that developers can inspect their data securely.
- ▪Developers frequently paste JSON into online formatters, risking exposure of sensitive information.
- ▪Json-explorer allows users to visualize JSON files as interactive collapsible trees in their browser.
- ▪The tool runs locally, ensuring that no data leaves the user's machine.
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| Original publisher | DEV.to (Top) |
| Canonical URL | https://dev.to/mumicrotools/developers-keep-pasting-json-into-online-formatters-and-leaking-secrets-so-i-built-json-explorer-43oa |
| Publication time | Tue, 19 May 2026 23:21:13 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-19T23:34:58.611Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-19T23:34:58.611Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | gJHPRXxQPSo1 |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3923619) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Mu Micro Posted on May 19 Developers keep pasting JSON into online formatters and leaking secrets — so I built json-explorer #webdev #node #devtools #productivity The problem Debugging large or deeply nested JSON responses means pasting into online formatters (a privacy risk), squinting at jq output, or writing throwaway scripts — there is no instant zero-setup local tool that gives you a rich interactive view.
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