# bitly/go-simplejson

a Go package to interact with arbitrary JSON

Repository: https://github.com/bitly/go-simplejson
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/go-simplejson
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-04-08T09:37:30+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5265, "days_push": 877, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3741, forks 489 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:15.964161+00:00)

## What it is
go-simplejson is a Go library for reading and manipulating arbitrary JSON with a simple, chainable API. It wraps encoding/json to make it easy to get and set values in JSON structures of unknown shape.

## Use cases
- parse arbitrary json in go
- read json fields without defining structs
- get and set values in dynamic json
- work with json of unknown schema
- safely extract nested json values

## When to choose
- you need to handle JSON whose structure is not known at compile time
- you want a lightweight, chainable API over encoding/json
- you only need simple get/set access to JSON data

## When to avoid
- you need strict schema validation or unmarshaling into typed structs
- you need high-performance JSON parsing
- you need JSONPath or complex query features

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: serialization, parser, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, apis, parsers
- platform: go, cross-platform
- tags: json, go-library, arbitrary-json, data-access

## Member repositories
- bitly/go-simplejson (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:15.964161+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 2026-08-29T18:29:06.785573+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/bitly/go-simplejson (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:15.964161+00:00, sha ae88cea1388c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.