Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your AVRO file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert AVRO to another file type
To convert AVRO data files to another format, you need Apache Hadoop or other Data software.
Convert a file to AVRO
To convert other file formats to the "Data Serialization File" file type, you need software like Apache Hadoop or a similar tool.
About AVRO files
The .AVRO file extension represents an Apache Avro Data file. It is a data serialization system developed by the Apache Software Foundation. Data engineers use this format to store large volumes of data for big data processing frameworks like Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark. The main disadvantage of the .AVRO format is its binary nature. It relies on a JSON schema to define data types, but the data payload itself is compiled into unreadable binary code. You cannot open an .AVRO file with standard text editors, web browsers, or spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel. To view the data, you must write custom code using Python, Java, or specialized command-line utilities. Users frequently need to convert .AVRO files to standard formats like JSON, CSV, or XML to make the data human-readable and accessible to non-technical users. Conversion to columnar formats like .PARQUET is also common for analytic workloads. Converting to CSV flattens the data structure, meaning complex nested arrays will be lost or simplified. Because this is a complex binary serialization format, standard online converters fail to process it. Only the original processing frameworks or dedicated parsing libraries can properly read or export the data. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your AVRO file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert AVRO file to JSON, CSV, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Apache Hadoop or similar software from the "Data Serialization System" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to AVRO, try Apache Hadoop or another comparable tool in the "Data Serialization System" category.
The AVRO Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our AVRO converter.