Dev tools · September 18, 2017
Quicktype – it's like Uber, but for JSON
Millions of developers have used quicktype to generate ten billion lines of typesafe models, serializers, and validators from JSON, JSON Schema, and GraphQL in TypeScript, Python, Swift, C#, Go, Rust, Kotlin, Java, C++, Zod and more. Use it in the browser, from the command line, or give it to your A
Quicktype – it's like Uber, but for JSON launched on September 18, 2017 with 34 votes, #781 of 3,073 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.
What it does
Millions of developers have used quicktype to generate ten billion lines of typesafe models, serializers, and validators from JSON, JSON Schema, and GraphQL in TypeScript, Python, Swift, C#, Go, Rust, Kotlin, Java, C++, Zod and more. Use it in the browser, from the command line, or give it to your AI coding agent over MCP.
quicktype infers types from your JSON and generates models, serializers, and validators in more than 25 languages. Millions of developers have generated billions of lines of code with it, and more than 200 contributors have contributed to its open source project. Use it in the browser, from the command line, in your build pipeline, or hand it to your AI coding agent over MCP . Three steps, in the browser, from the command line, or inside your agent. { "people" : [ { "name" : "Atticus" , "high score" : 100 }, { "name" : "Cleo" , "high score" : 900 }, { "name" : "Orly" }, { "name" : "Jasper" } ] } Sample JSON, an API URL, a JSON Schema, or a GraphQL query: whatever you have. class MyData {…from quicktype.io
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