diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f2ecede..2762a42 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "yaml-ld"
-version = "1.1.16"
+version = "1.1.17"
 description = "YAML-LD for Python"
 authors = ["Anatoly Scherbakov <altaisoft@gmail.com>"]
 license = "MIT"
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0383177
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[flake8]
+max-imports = 15
diff --git a/yaml_ld/document_loaders/content_types.py b/yaml_ld/document_loaders/content_types.py
index 32dced8..9fc4830 100644
--- a/yaml_ld/document_loaders/content_types.py
+++ b/yaml_ld/document_loaders/content_types.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 from yarl import URL
 
 from yaml_ld.document_parsers.base import BaseDocumentParser
+from yaml_ld.document_parsers.json_parser import JSONDocumentParser
 from yaml_ld.document_parsers.rdf_xml_parser import RDFXMLParser
 from yaml_ld.document_parsers.turtle_parser import TurtleParser
 from yaml_ld.document_parsers.yaml_parser import YAMLDocumentParser
@@ -95,8 +96,8 @@ def parser_by_content_type_map():
     )
 
     return {
-        'application/json': YAMLDocumentParser,
-        APPLICATION_LD_JSON: YAMLDocumentParser,
+        'application/json': JSONDocumentParser,
+        APPLICATION_LD_JSON: JSONDocumentParser,
         'application/yaml': YAMLDocumentParser,
         'application/x-yaml': YAMLDocumentParser,
         'application/ld+yaml': YAMLDocumentParser,
diff --git a/yaml_ld/document_parsers/json_parser.py b/yaml_ld/document_parsers/json_parser.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..83e7642
--- /dev/null
+++ b/yaml_ld/document_parsers/json_parser.py
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+import io
+import json
+
+from yaml_ld.document_parsers.base import (
+    BaseDocumentParser,
+    DocumentLoaderOptions,
+)
+from yaml_ld.errors import (
+    DocumentIsScalar,
+    InvalidEncoding,
+    LoadingDocumentFailed,
+)
+from yaml_ld.models import JsonLdRecord
+
+
+def ensure_not_scalar(document) -> JsonLdRecord | list[JsonLdRecord]:
+    """Ensure document is not a scalar value."""
+    if not isinstance(document, (dict, list)):
+        raise DocumentIsScalar(document)
+
+    return document
+
+
+class JSONDocumentParser(BaseDocumentParser):
+    """Parse JSON and JSON-LD documents."""
+
+    def __call__(
+        self,
+        data_stream: io.BytesIO,
+        source: str,
+        options: DocumentLoaderOptions,
+    ) -> JsonLdRecord | list[JsonLdRecord]:
+        """Parse JSON document into LD."""
+        try:
+            text = data_stream.read().decode('utf-8')
+        except UnicodeDecodeError as unicode_decode_error:
+            raise InvalidEncoding() from unicode_decode_error
+
+        try:
+            document = json.loads(text)
+        except json.JSONDecodeError as json_error:
+            raise LoadingDocumentFailed(path=source) from json_error
+
+        return ensure_not_scalar(document)