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Life & fun · September 14, 2014

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Homogenius – Packer/unpacker to reduce the size of JSON

Homogenius – Packer/unpacker to reduce the size of JSON launched on September 14, 2014 with 58 votes, #993 of 2,087 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

In plain words

Homogenius is a packer and unpacker tool that reduces the file size of homogeneous JSON data by eliminating repeated keys and values. It is designed for developers who work with large JSON files containing repetitive structures. The current version removes duplicate keys, with plans to also eliminate redundant values in future releases.

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From the sources

Homogenius is a packing/unpacking technique to reduce the size of homogenous JSON files. The main point of Homogenius is to prevent repeating keys and values in a homogenous JSON format, so this reduces the size of the JSON file. Currently we are in the first version of Homogenius and in this initial version, we are going to prevent repeating keys only. Further, we will alter Homogenius so it also prevents repeating values also. [ [{ "boo" : 1 }, { "nested" : [{ "boo_nested" : 1 }, { "foo_nested" : 1 }, { "bar_nested" : 1 }] }, { "bar" : 1 }], [ [ "val1" ], [ [ "val_nested1" ], [ "val_nested2" ], [ "val_nested3" ] ], [ "val2" ] ], [ 0 , [ 0 , 0 , 0 ], 0 ], [ 0 , [ 0 , 0 , 0 ], 0 ] ]…from homogenius.github.io

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