🔧 Building a JSON Formatter: Zero-Click Auto-Format and the Clipboard API Trap

When an API response comes back as a single line, what do you reach for?


Open jsonformatter.org, paste, click "Format."

Three steps I was repeating dozens of times a week. Then in November 2025, watchTowr Labs revealed that jsonformatter.org and codebeautify.org had leaked over 80,000 AWS keys and API secrets -- because every piece of JSON you...