DaveGamble/cJSON
Ultralightweight JSON parser in ANSI C
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Recommended between 2025-09-21 and 2025-09-21. Last pushed 2026-09-16.
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“I've been using cJSON[0] for years now and am pretty happy with it.”
— mcflubbins, 2025-09-21 · strong recommendation · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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Neat! Might look at this next time I need a JSON parser in C. I've been using cJSON[0] for years now and am pretty happy with it. I had used wjelement[1] before that but ran into a few issues and eventually moved away from it (can't recall why exactly its been so long.) [0] https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON [1] https://github.com/netmail-open/wjelement
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