JSON Escape / Unescape

Escape special characters in a string for use inside JSON, or unescape a JSON string value. Handles quotes and backslashes.

JSON Escape / Unescape

Input

ModeEscapeUnescape

Output

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How it works

Escape: we wrap in quotes and use JSON.stringify on the string. Unescape: we parse a quoted JSON string.

When to use it

Use when building JSON by hand or fixing malformed string values.

Frequently asked questions

Unicode?

JSON.stringify produces \uXXXX for non-ASCII when needed.

Newlines?

Escaped as \n; unescape restores them.