str vs Jansson

Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

www.influxdata.com

featured

SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews

SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

www.saashub.com

featured

str		Jansson
	Project
1	Mentions	6
276	Stars	2,978
-	Growth	-
4.0	Activity	7.1
6 months ago	Latest Commit	23 days ago
C	Language	C
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

str

Posts with mentions or reviews of str. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-27.

C Deep
80 projects | dev.to | 27 Feb 2021

libzip - C library for reading, creating and modifying zip archives. BSD-3-Clause

Jansson

Posts with mentions or reviews of Jansson. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-07.

A good C library to parse json data
5 projects | /r/C_Programming | 7 May 2023

I'm a fan of jansson easy to use and great documentation
jemi: a compact JSON serializer for embedded systems
11 projects | /r/embedded | 5 Oct 2022

Context: I needed to emit rather complex compound JSON data for a C-based project I'm working on. I could do it all with sprintf(), but it got messy quickly. I looked at available libraries such as jansson and CCAN's json, but they both used malloc(), which isn't an option in my case.
How can I parse JSON with C?
3 projects | /r/C_Programming | 21 Oct 2021

I find jansson quite usable and minimal: https://github.com/akheron/jansson
Good json libraries?
1 project | /r/C_Programming | 22 Jul 2021

JanSON has been really good for my uses. Simple, intuitive, fast.
How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
7 projects | /r/programming | 28 Feb 2021

I don't see why something like Jansson wouldn't.
C Deep
80 projects | dev.to | 27 Feb 2021

Jansson - Library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON. MIT

What are some alternatives?

When comparing str and Jansson you can also consider the following projects:

GLFW - A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input

json-c - https://github.com/json-c/json-c is the official code repository for json-c. See the wiki for release tarballs for download. API docs at http://json-c.github.io/json-c/

smaz - Small strings compression library

cJSON - Ultralightweight JSON parser in ANSI C

Allegro - The official Allegro 5 git repository. Pull requests welcome!

RapidJSON - A fast JSON parser/generator for C++ with both SAX/DOM style API

Leaf-C-Extended-Library - A simple library that supplements the simple C programming experience!

libjson - a JSON parser and printer library in C. easy to integrate with any model.

ZLib - A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library.

JSMN - Jsmn is a world fastest JSON parser/tokenizer. This is the official repo replacing the old one at Bitbucket

ck - Concurrency primitives, safe memory reclamation mechanisms and non-blocking (including lock-free) data structures designed to aid in the research, design and implementation of high performance concurrent systems developed in C99+.

JsonCpp - A C++ library for interacting with JSON.