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Blobster guides

# Practical guides for working with developer data.

Clear workflows for inspecting JSON, HAR, NDJSON and nested paths locally, with examples, limitations and source links.

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## Guides

4 source-backed articles, published by Mochavi.

[01

**Why production JSON should stay out of paste sites**

A practical way to inspect API responses, customer payloads and configuration data without turning sensitive debugging material into somebody else’s input.

6 minute read · Markdown available

](https://www.mochavi.com/blobster/guides/keep-production-json-local)[02

**How to inspect HAR files before sharing them**

HAR captures are excellent debugging evidence, but they can also carry headers, cookies, URLs, request bodies and customer context. Review and reduce them locally first.

7 minute read · Markdown available

](https://www.mochavi.com/blobster/guides/inspect-har-files-safely)[03

**NDJSON and JSONL: debug one record at a time**

One malformed line should not hide a useful log or export. Learn how newline-delimited JSON differs from a JSON array and how to isolate bad records.

6 minute read · Markdown available

](https://www.mochavi.com/blobster/guides/debug-ndjson-jsonl)[04

**JSONPath, jq and JavaScript paths from one value**

JSONPath, jq and JavaScript property access look similar, but they solve different jobs. Use the selected value to produce the right syntax without retyping it.

7 minute read · Markdown available

](https://www.mochavi.com/blobster/guides/copy-jsonpath-jq-javascript)

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