You copy a JSON response from Postman, paste it into your editor, and it looks like this:

{ "user" :{ "id" : 1042 , "name" : "Shaishav" , "email" : "[email protected]" , "roles" :[ "admin" , "editor" ], "preferences" :{ "theme" : "dark" , "notifications" : true , "language" : "en" }}}

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Technically valid. Completely unreadable. And somewhere in that wall of text is the key you're trying to find.

This is what a JSON formatter is for.

What JSON formatting does

A JSON formatter takes a valid JSON string — compressed, one-line, or just badly indented — and rewrites it with:

Each key-value pair on its own line

Nested objects and arrays indented consistently

Arrays displayed vertically for readability

It doesn't change any data.…