AeScripts’ Lloyd Alvarez post a short presentation aimed at After Effects script developers. Lloyd shows how you can interact with external JSON files which can operate as native Javascript objects.

how quickly and easliy scripts can interact with external json

JSON (Javascript Object Notation) is a lightweight data interchange format base in Javascript, to which Jason Redd likens to being very similar to XML, making JSON notation easy to parse.

Check out After Effects Scripting JSON Tutorial over at aescreipts + aeplugins here.