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Pretty JSON Diff

Compare two JSON objects and display their differences in a readable format

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Quick start

Call this tool from your code in three languages.

cURL

curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/pretty-json-diff' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"json1":"{\"name\": \"John\", \"age\": 30}","json2":"{\"name\": \"John\", \"age\": 31}","showUnchanged":false,"colorOutput":true}'

API reference

Send a POST request with your inputs as JSON. File parameters require a separate upload first.

Endpoint

HTTP

POST https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/pretty-json-diff

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
json1	textarea	Yes	—
json2	textarea	Yes	—
showUnchanged	checkbox	No	—
colorOutput	checkbox	No	—

Response format

Text result

JSON

{
  "result": "Processed text content",
  "error": "Error message (optional)",
  "message": "Notification message (optional)",
  "metadata": {
    "key": "value"
  }
}

MCP integration

Add this tool to your Model Context Protocol server so AI agents can list and call it.

Server configuration

Add this block to your MCP client configuration:

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elysiatools-pretty-json-diff": {
      "name": "pretty-json-diff",
      "description": "Compare two JSON objects and display their differences in a readable format",
      "baseUrl": "https://api.elysiatools.com/mcp/sse?toolId=pretty-json-diff",
      "command": "",
      "args": [],
      "env": {},
      "isActive": true,
      "type": "sse"
    }
  }
}

List available tools

After connecting to the SSE endpoint, list the exposed tools:

tools/list

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/list"
}

Call this tool

Invoke the tool by its id, passing arguments built from its parameters:

tools/call

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 2,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "pretty-json-diff",
    "arguments": {
  "json1": "{\"name\": \"John\", \"age\": 30}",
  "json2": "{\"name\": \"John\", \"age\": 31}",
  "showUnchanged": false,
  "colorOutput": true
}
  }
}

Chain multiple tools in one session with a comma-separated toolId list, e.g. /mcp/sse?toolId=png-to-webp,jpg-to-webp,gif-to-webp (max 20).

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curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/pretty-json-diff' \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d '{"json1":"{\"name\": \"John\", \"age\": 30}","json2":"{\"name\": \"John\", \"age\": 31}","showUnchanged":false,"colorOutput":true}'

Name

Type

Required

Description

json1

textarea

Yes

—

json2

textarea

Yes

—

showUnchanged

checkbox

—

colorOutput

checkbox

—

{ "mcpServers": { "elysiatools-pretty-json-diff": { "name": "pretty-json-diff", "description": "Compare two JSON objects and display their differences in a readable format", "baseUrl": "https://api.elysiatools.com/mcp/sse?toolId=pretty-json-diff", "command": "", "args": [], "env": {}, "isActive": true, "type": "sse" } } }

{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 2, "method": "tools/call", "params": { "name": "pretty-json-diff", "arguments": { "json1": "{\"name\": \"John\", \"age\": 30}", "json2": "{\"name\": \"John\", \"age\": 31}", "showUnchanged": false, "colorOutput": true } } }