Escape and Unescape JSON Strings

Escape quotation marks, backslashes, line breaks and tabs for JSON, or restore an escaped string. Useful for logs, configuration files and nested API strings.

Escape / unescape

Escape a JSON string with backslashes or unescape it. Useful for embedding text containing quotes, newlines or special characters in JSON.

Input text

Output

Worked example

Escaping First line↵Second line produces \n. Quoted text becomes \"text\", suitable for inclusion in a JSON string value.

Understanding settings and results

Escaping operates on string content; it does not wrap the text in an object.
Unescaping requires valid backslash sequences.

Scope and limitations

Repeated escaping produces doubled backslashes. Confirm how many encoding layers the target requires.
URL encoding and JSON escaping are different operations.

Troubleshooting

Many remaining backslashes can mean the text was escaped twice. Unescape one layer at a time and verify.
An invalid \u sequence needs four hexadecimal digits.

Privacy and processing

All string operations run locally in the browser.