Paste a string full of backslashes and see the original content.
The input is parsed as a JSON string literal, so backslash n becomes a real line break and backslash quote becomes a quote. If the unescaped text turns out to be JSON itself, as often happens with logs and API payloads that were stringified twice, the tool keeps unwrapping up to three levels and pretty prints the final document.
You can paste the string with or without the surrounding quotes.
No. It works with or without them.
JSON that was converted to a string and then stringified again, so every quote is escaped twice. The tool unwraps each layer.
The input may contain an invalid escape such as a lone backslash. The message includes a line and column to help you find it.