How do I open .json files from Yahoo account data?

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Out of curiosity mainly, I requested a download of my Yahoo account that comes with my AT&T email.  I do not use AT&T email and I do not use Yahoo search or the Currently news page.  They just come with AT&T U verse that is my service provider.

I got an email that my requested information is now available to download from my Yahoo dash board.  So I went there and downloaded it.  But the download is a zipped file and when I extracted the content the files all ended in .json.

Nothing on my computer will open .json files.  I went to the Microsoft Store but there are several programs offered.  I would like to download a free one but I don’t know which one to download.

In the  meantime I was afraid of these odd files and deleted them from my download folder but they are still available on my Yahoo dashboard and I can get them again.

Can anyone help me find a free program to open json files?

Thank you in advance.

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Have you tried NotePad?

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Thank you for responding.  I tried Notepad but it looked unreadable.  Not like regular text.  Can you read json files with notepad? is there some setting I don’t know about?  How do you read json files?

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I am attaching what I see when I open the json file from Yahoo in Notepad.  I opened Activity Data>User Data 1. Below is the address on file explorer.

D:\Downloads\Chrome Downloads\(json file from yahoo)\Activity Data\User Data 1

I don’t think what I get is very readable but perhaps this is all there is.  Does it look right to you?

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The PDF of JSON output viewed in Notepad looks entirely normal and fairly simply structured data.

The problem is that JSON output can range from simple to highly complex and deeply nested.

Perhaps try again but using the free Notepad++ and its JSON viewer plug-in?

(The plug-in download contains both the NPPJSONViewer.dll plug-in DLL and a readme file. Open the readme file in Notepad++ for instructions about how to copy and install the plug-in.)

For example, the complex nested JSON data in the right-hand pane is shown in the JSON viewer in the left-hand pane.

(I’ve highlighted a single data fragment so you can see the correlation between the raw nested data and how the same data appears in the viewer when you drill down to it.)

Hope this helps…

 

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Thank you for your reply.  Guess I just did not know what to expect.  Thought it would be a nice list of dates and what Yahoo kept.  I think that is there but not easily found.  A lot of entries showed 0 content.  As well it should as I don’t use any Yahoo stuff.  But my mail program checks for Yahoo mail provided by AT&T and that is the most activity in Activity.

Good idea about using a different Notepad with extras.  I may try it when I have time.  I appreciate the time it took to answer my question.

Thank you.

 

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OS build 19045.5608
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