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JSON Unescape

Turn a JSON string literal back into raw text.

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About this tool

Reverses JSON string escaping, turning \n, \t, \" and \uXXXX sequences back into the characters they represent. Useful for reading a JSON string that was itself stored inside another JSON document.

Questions

My input has doubled backslashes.
It was escaped twice, which happens when a JSON document is embedded in another as a string. Run it through twice.

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