JSON Formatter provides buttons to toggle between raw and formatted views of a JSON document.

It is open source. As of March 2023, the chrome extension was last updated on January 2023 and the last commit was in March 2023.

As of November 2016, the last commit was in March 2015. There are over 100 forks, many of which have more recent commits. It's not immediately clear if one of those forks is better maintained.

The OP of this answer originally wrote: "I feel like a big dummy. Some more thorough searching turned up https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-missing-json-inspecto/hhffklcokfpbcajebmnpijpkaeadlgfn/related, which is exactly what I need." However, an edited version of this answer indicated that that extension was not open source and was no longer maintained.

JSONView extension or any other extensions in the Chrome browser needs permission to access file URLs if it is accessing files from your local system. To allow:-

1. Visit chrome://extensions/
2. Click on Details button of the Extension card
3. Switch ON the Allow access to file URLs

And even easier, with Safari 5: https://github.com/rfletcher/safari-json-formatter

Its because of cross-origin errors you get in the javascript...

Go to your chrome shortcut -> right click -> properties -> shortcut

Change the target field from:

"C:\Users\boris.d\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"

to

"C:\Users\boris.d\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --allow-file-access-from-files"

and it will work for you :-)

The $api->get('/account.json'); call returns a string that contains the json data. You are then passing this string to the response()->json(); method, and that is the output you are seeing.

You need to run the string through json_decode() in order to convert the json string into a PHP object. Once you do that, you can pass that result to the response()->json(); method, and you will get the result you're looking for.

Route::get('cdn', function() {
    $api = new MaxCDN("myurl","mykey","mysecret");
    $stringData = $api->get('/account.json');

    // convert the json string into an actual PHP object
    $data = json_decode($stringData);

    // respond with the object
    return response()->json($data);
});

You are missing a comma before "browser_action".

I've been using this extension (It's called JSON Viewer and the source is available at github) for years, it works great.

I don't know who's the developer is but if he ever reads this: Thanks for taking the time to develop such a timesaving tool!

What is being output is perfectly fine JSON. Your browser extension simply doesn't pick up on that fact because you're most likely not denoting the content type in the HTTP Content-Type header. Without that, anything is simply plaintext to the browser. Add this before outputting your JSON:

header('Content-Type: application/json');