# Jeffail/gabs

For parsing, creating and editing unknown or dynamic JSON in Go

Repository: https://github.com/Jeffail/gabs
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gabs
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: go, json, parsing, golang
Last push: 2024-06-06T20:46:33+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4509, "days_push": 818, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3527, forks 200 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:08.102699+00:00)

## What it is
Gabs is a small Go library for parsing, creating, and editing dynamic or unknown JSON structures. It wraps map[string]interface{} hierarchies from encoding/json with convenient path-based navigation and mutation helpers.

## Use cases
- parse json with unknown structure in go
- search nested json by path
- build json objects programmatically in go
- edit dynamic json payloads
- iterate json arrays and objects
- query json with json pointer

## When to choose
- you need to work with JSON whose schema is unknown at compile time
- you want simple path-based access to nested JSON values in Go
- you need to construct nested JSON without verbose map literals

## When to avoid
- your JSON structures are well-defined and can be modeled with typed structs
- you need high-performance streaming or schema-validated JSON processing
- you need JSONPath or advanced query features beyond simple path lookup

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: parser, serialization, json, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, parsers, backend
- platform: go, cross-platform
- tags: json-manipulation, dynamic-json, json-path, wrapper

## Member repositories
- Jeffail/gabs (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:08.102699+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:35:09.189838+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Jeffail/gabs (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:08.102699+00:00, sha 99852d8060c1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.