JSON Escape / Unescape

What is Escape?

The JSON Escape/Unescape tool converts a raw string into its JSON-escaped form (where special characters like quotes and newlines are escaped), or reverses the process to recover the original plain text.

How it works

For escaping, we use JSON.stringify to produce a properly escaped version wrapped in quotes. For unescaping, we JSON.parse the input and extract the string value.

1. Choose mode. Escape: raw string → escaped. Unescape: escaped → raw string.
2. Paste text. Paste a raw string to escape, or an escaped string to unescape.
3. Copy result. Copy the escaped/unescaped result.

Examples

Escape

hello "world" becomes "hello \"world\"".

Unescape

"hello\nworld" becomes hello (newline) world.

Common mistakes

Double escaping

If you escape an already-escaped string, you'll double the backslashes. Start from raw text.

Alternatives

JSON Formatter

For formatting entire JSON documents, not just escaping strings.

Frequently asked questions