halaxa/json-machine

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1326 stars · 74 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

JSON Machine is a PHP library for memory-efficient streaming parsing of large JSON files and streams. It provides a simple iterator-based API as a drop-in replacement for json_decode when handling documents too big to fit in memory.

Use cases

• parse large json files without exhausting memory
• stream json api responses in php
• iterate over huge json arrays item by item
• extract a subtree from a big json document with json pointer
• process 500MB json export files

When to choose

• you need to parse JSON documents larger than available memory in PHP
• you want a simple foreach-based API over big JSON files or HTTP streams
• you need to parse streaming JSON responses from Guzzle or Symfony HttpClient

When to avoid

• you need random access to JSON items by index
• your JSON documents are small enough for json_decode
• you are not working in PHP

Facets

library · maturity stable

parser serialization streaming parsers files developer-tools php cli json-streaming memory-efficient json-pointer large-files data-engineering

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