JSON Escape/Unescape

Escape JSON strings for embedding in other JSON or unescape escaped JSON strings. Auto-detection and special character handling.

Features

• Escape quotes, backslashes, newlines for safe JSON embedding
• Unescape already-escaped JSON strings to plain text
• Handles Unicode and control characters correctly
• Bidirectional; paste either form and convert
• Useful for configs, env vars, or nested JSON

Why use this tool

When you need a JSON string inside another JSON value or in a config file, escaping by hand is error-prone. This does it correctly every time.

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