I have both JSON file and JL file on my computer but when I open them in Notepad their structure looks like the same. What is the difference between them? where shall I use each one?
Actually, at the time I asked this question, I didn’t know that "the file type is no guarantee of what is inside it." In other words, I thought that every file name had its own manifesto—if a file’s name was ‘.something,’ then it MUST have had a unique manifesto. But now I know that I can create a file, write anything I want into it, and name it ‘.pokemon’—and there’s nothing special about it!
What was that file? the file was JSON Lines file format.
Where did I find it? in the Scrapy except writing scrapy crawl name -o file.json I saw that somebody wrote scrapy crawl name -o file.jl. I tried that and the file was 99% like JSON file so I wondered and asked this question here.
So:
What is the difference between a .JSON file and .JL file? Now I know that the better question is "What is the difference between a .JSON file and .JL file in the Scrapy?"
The JSON Line is like JSON but without the "[" and "]" at the beginning and the end. it is used in the Scrapy because of this