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CBOR

A binary format that holds the same kinds of data as JSON in fewer bytes.

Concise Binary Object Representation (RFC 8949) encodes the JSON data model, plus byte strings and tags, as typed binary items whose headers carry their lengths.

Examples

  • The same greenhouse climate reading that takes 66 bytes as JSON takes 55 bytes as CBOR with cbor2 defaults, and the field names such as temp_c are still spelled out.

See also

JSON Protocol Buffers message contract
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