Question

I am trying to make a simple twitter client in C. I’m new at this and not sure how to go about segregating meaningful stuff from the JSON string that I get from the API.

For example, if I get this as a response from the API, how do I extract out the value of “text” into a string (char*)? I guess I can work with the string at low level, but wouldn’t that become too tedious every time I need to get a value from the JSON string?

Answer 1

For JSON in general, json.org has a big list of parsers implemented in a ton of different languages.

For C:

• JSON_checker
• JSON parser
• json-c
• M’s JSON parser
• YAJL
• cJSON
• Jansson
• jsmn