Source format
JSON
JavaScript Object Notation
The format websites, apps and web services use to talk to each other: objects with names and values, even nested. Converting a table to JSON makes it ready for code.
- Best for
- Developers, APIs, imports into databases and apps.
- Limits
- For non-programmers it’s less convenient than a spreadsheet.
- Type
- structured data
- Human-readable
- yes, it’s text
- Used by
- APIs, apps, configuration files
- Extensions
- .json
- Since
- 2001