Detect JSON types API

Reports the JSON type of a value, plus per-key types for objects or distinct element types for arrays (distinguishing integer vs number). Answers 'What are the types of each field?', 'Is this number an integer or a float?'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/data-transform/detect-types

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit120/minute

Cache0s public

data-transformtypesdetectschemajsoninspectwrangle

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/data-transform/detect-types

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "value": {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "x",
    "ratio": 1.5,
    "active": true
  }
}

Example response

{
  "type": "object",
  "keyTypes": {
    "id": "integer",
    "name": "string",
    "ratio": "number",
    "active": "boolean"
  }
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "value"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "value": {
      "type": "object",
      "examples": [
        {
          "id": 1,
          "name": "x",
          "ratio": 1.5,
          "active": true
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}