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I am looking for a straightforward way to export results from functions like ImageContents, FacialFeatures, and WolframAlpha - symbols that return stuff containing knowledgebase content.

Aside from obvious non-JSON-exportable things like Missing[], Complex, None, etc. exporting Quantities and Entities look like the main hurdle.

Is there a standard way to replace them with common name strings and strip uuids so that they are jsonifiable as well as understandable to the non-wolfram world?

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You can use "ConversionFunction" / "ConversionRules" for "RawJSON" export and define whatever you want, and as a quick start you can do:

ExportString[
 {1, Quantity[1, "Meters"], Missing[], 1 - I, None}
, "RawJSON"
, "Compact" -> 1
, "ConversionFunction" -> (
    <|"type" -> "ExpressionJSON", 
      "value" -> ImportString[ 
        ExportString[#, "ExpressionJSON", "Compact" -> True]
      , "JSON"]
    |> &
  )
 
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[
    1,
    {"type":"ExpressionJSON","value":["Quantity",1,"'Meters'"]},
    {"type":"ExpressionJSON","value":["Missing"]},
    {"type":"ExpressionJSON","value":["Complex",1,-1]},
    {"type":"ExpressionJSON","value":"None"}
]
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  • $\begingroup$ this is a great answer but could we reformat this so someone who knows nothing about Wolfram can understand it? For example, the entities for concepts like Happiness have weird uuids in them. $\endgroup$
    – M.R.
    Jul 5, 2022 at 16:17
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    $\begingroup$ @M.R. we could make it produce "[\"Entity\",\"'Emotion'\",\"'Happiness'\"]" but it won't be reversible. Could be fine if you don't want to import it back. I can add lines that address it but you'd need to provide more examples because I don't work with entities and I don't know if the id in the second argument is all that I should take care of. $\endgroup$
    – Kuba ♦
    Jul 6, 2022 at 5:35

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