I had lots of JSON to send and there are tons of XML parsers which can parse using parts of the data and do stuff without knowing the entire file, etc. Whatever. I thought it would be easy (and i'm writing this readme before I start this project for no reason in particular, but i probably won't set up a github repo until i'm done, or this file will rot on my hard drive for eternity while i'm working on a JS GIF encoder based on someone else's AS3 implementation) Based on www.json.org/json_parse.js /* http://www.JSON.org/json_parse.js 2009-05-31 Public Domain. NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. This file creates a json_parse function. json_parse(text, reviver) This method parses a JSON text to produce an object or array. It can throw a SyntaxError exception. The optional reviver parameter is a function that can filter and transform the results. It receives each of the keys and values, and its return value is used instead of the original value. If it returns what it received, then the structure is not modified. If it returns undefined then the member is deleted. Example: // Parse the text. Values that look like ISO date strings will // be converted to Date objects. myData = json_parse(text, function (key, value) { var a; if (typeof value === 'string') { a = /^(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})T(\d{2}):(\d{2}):(\d{2}(?:\.\d*)?)Z$/.exec(value); if (a) { return new Date(Date.UTC(+a[1], +a[2] - 1, +a[3], +a[4], +a[5], +a[6])); } } return value; }); This is a reference implementation. You are free to copy, modify, or redistribute. This code should be minified before deployment. See http://javascript.crockford.com/jsmin.html USE YOUR OWN COPY. IT IS EXTREMELY UNWISE TO LOAD CODE FROM SERVERS YOU DO NOT CONTROL. */ /*members "", "\"", "\/", "\\", at, b, call, charAt, f, fromCharCode, hasOwnProperty, message, n, name, push, r, t, text */