json-parser/json-parser

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1337 stars · 290 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

A very low footprint DOM-style JSON parser written in portable ANSI C (C89). It ships as just json.c and json.h with no dependencies and a simple API, plus optional C++ operator sugar.

Use cases

• parse JSON in C with minimal memory footprint
• embed a JSON parser in an embedded or resource-constrained project
• drop a dependency-free JSON parser into any build system
• parse JSON documents into a DOM tree in C89
• report JSON errors with line and column tracking
• enable comments in JSON config files

When to choose

• you need a tiny, portable, dependency-free JSON parser in C
• you're targeting embedded or resource-constrained environments
• you want a simple DOM-style API without recursion overhead
• you need C89 portability across compilers and platforms

When to avoid

• you need JSON serialization (use json-builder instead)
• you want a modern C++ or higher-level JSON library with rich features
• you need streaming/SAX-style parsing of very large documents
• you need schema validation or JSONPath-style queries

Facets

library · maturity stable

parser serialization json parsers developer-tools files c cpp cross-platform embedded dom-style low-footprint ansi-c no-dependencies single-file

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