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Convert JSON to MD Online

Paste a JSON table below, edit it if you need to, and get MD back. The conversion runs in your browser, so nothing is uploaded, there is no size limit and there is no signup.

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What JSON is

JSON is a text format for nested data: objects with named keys, arrays, strings, numbers, booleans and null. It has no date type and no comments.

Every web API, most configuration files and anything that talks to JavaScript.

What MD is

A Markdown table is rows of pipe-separated cells with a dashed rule under the header. Alignment is set by placing colons in that rule.

README files, GitHub issues, documentation sites, Obsidian and Notion.

What changes when you convert JSON to MD

Four shapes all read correctly: an array of objects, an array of arrays with a header row, an object of column arrays, and an object keyed by row id. A single wrapper key holding the array, which is how most APIs reply, is unwrapped automatically. Nested objects are flattened one level into dotted keys; anything deeper is kept as JSON text in the cell, because a table cannot hold a tree.

Cells are padded so the source lines up in a plain text editor, pipes inside values are escaped, and line breaks inside a cell become <br> because a Markdown table row cannot span lines.

What carries over from JSON to MD

JSON records 4 things about a table that Markdown has no way to hold.

JSON distinguishes a number from the text of a number; Markdown does not, so every value arrives as text and has to be re-parsed by whatever reads it next.

An empty cell and a missing one are the same thing in Markdown, so a null and an empty string in the JSON both come out blank and can no longer be told apart.

JSON can hold a value that is itself a list or an object. Markdown has only flat cells, so nested values are flattened into one cell rather than being spread across columns.

A line break inside a cell ends the row in Markdown, so line breaks are replaced rather than carried through.

Markdown marks header cells differently from data cells, so the keys are lifted out and written once as a marked header row rather than repeated on every row.

The identifier 007 comes out of the MD as 007. Reading it as a number would have made it 7, and an id that changes value is worse than one that stays text.

The role "Analyst, data" survives with its comma, in one cell rather than split across two. That is the first thing to check in any converted table, and the usual place a MD file goes wrong.

The quotes around Jonah "Jo" Pryce are left as a plain quote character in the MD.

A worked example

Three rows of staff data, with an identifier that has a leading zero, a value containing a comma, a value containing quotes and one blank cell. Those are the four places formats disagree, so they are the four places to look.

JSON in
[
  { "id": "007", "name": "Halima Yusuf", "role": "Analyst, data", "started": "2024-03-15", "hours": "38.5" },
  { "id": "012", "name": "Jonah \"Jo\" Pryce", "role": "Engineer", "started": "2025-11-02", "hours": "" },
  { "id": "104", "name": "Wei Chen", "role": "Manager", "started": "2023-06-30", "hours": "40" }
]
MD out
| id  | name             | role          | started    | hours |
| --- | ---------------- | ------------- | ---------- | ----- |
| 007 | Halima Yusuf     | Analyst, data | 2024-03-15 | 38.5  |
| 012 | Jonah "Jo" Pryce | Engineer      | 2025-11-02 |       |
| 104 | Wei Chen         | Manager       | 2023-06-30 | 40    |

Questions

How do I convert JSON to MD?

Paste your JSON into the box above or drop the file onto it. Check the table in the grid, then copy or download the MD from the output panel. It takes one step and the data never leaves your browser.

Why did my zip code lose its leading zero?

Type inference turned the text 07030 into the number 7030. Tablizer leaves inference off by default for exactly this reason, and refuses to convert any value starting with a zero followed by a digit even when it is on.

Can a Markdown table cell contain a line break?

Not directly. The row ends at the newline. Use a <br> tag inside the cell, which every common Markdown renderer passes through to the HTML output.

Will my numbers still be numbers?

They will read the same, but Markdown stores them as text. Anything that sorts or sums the result will need to parse them first, and a leading zero or a currency symbol is the usual place that goes wrong.

What happens to nested values?

Markdown has no nested cell, so a list or object inside a JSON value is flattened into a single cell rather than expanded into extra columns. Split it before converting if the parts need to be separate.

One of my cells has a line break in it - what happens?

A line break would end the row in Markdown, so it is replaced instead of carried through. The rest of the cell stays where it belongs.

Is there a limit on file size?

No. The work happens on your own machine, so the limit is your machine's memory rather than an upload cap. A file with tens of thousands of rows converts in a second or two.

Is my data uploaded anywhere?

No. The parsing and generating are done by JavaScript running on this page. You can watch the network tab while you convert and see that nothing is sent.

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