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Turn your JSON files into YAML in seconds. Everything happens in your browser: nothing is uploaded to any server.
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Or paste them with Ctrl+V. They never leave your device.
For a person, a table in JSON is harder to read than a spreadsheet. As YAML it is readable and ready for a configuration file.
JSON is the data format of APIs and web apps: nested lists and objects as text.
Strengths: Every programming language reads it and it is easy to validate.
Limits: For a person, a table in JSON is harder to read than a spreadsheet.
YAML represents the same data as JSON but with indentation instead of braces, meant to be read and written by hand.
Strengths: It is the configuration format of Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions and many tools.
Limits: Indentation matters: one extra space changes the meaning.
No. The JSON to YAML conversion runs entirely in your browser, with code downloaded from this site and executed on your device. You can check it in the Network tab of the developer tools or by going offline after the page loads.
Up to 1 GB on desktop and about 200 MB on mobile, although a huge spreadsheet may take a few seconds.
Yes. Drop as many JSON files as you like: several are converted at the same time, depending on your processor cores, and when they finish you can download each YAML or all of them in a ZIP.