Request: json() method

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2017.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The json() method of the Request interface reads the request body and returns it as a promise that resolves with the result of parsing the body text as JSON.

Note that despite the method being named json(), the result is not JSON but is instead the result of taking JSON as input and parsing it to produce a JavaScript object.

Syntax

js
json()

Parameters

None.

Return value

A Promise that resolves to a JavaScript object. This object could be anything that can be represented by JSON — an object, an array, a string, a number…

Examples

js
const obj = { hello: "world" };

const request = new Request("/myEndpoint", {
  method: "POST",
  body: JSON.stringify(obj),
});

request.json().then((data) => {
  // do something with the data sent in the request
});

Specifications

Specification
Fetch
# ref-for-dom-body-json①

Browser compatibility

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desktopmobileserver
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
Deno
Node.js
json

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Full support
Full support

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