Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your GRAPHML file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert GRAPHML to another file type
To convert GRAPHML graphs to another format, you need yEd or other Data software.
Convert a file to GRAPHML
To convert other file formats to the "Graph Description File" file type, you need software like yEd or a similar tool.
About GRAPHML files
A .GRAPHML file is a comprehensive XML-based standard for describing the structural properties of graphs. It handles complex network data, supporting directed edges, undirected edges, nested graphs, and hypergraphs. It is widely used as the native format for the yEd Graph Editor and is supported by heavy-duty network analysis platforms like Gephi, as well as data science libraries like Python's NetworkX. The core problem with the format is its raw underlying structure. Because .GRAPHML files are effectively raw XML code mapping out nodes and relationships, they cannot be previewed natively in a web browser or a standard image viewer. If you need to share a social network map, an organizational chart, or an activity diagram with a non-technical client, handing them a .GRAPHML file will result in frustration, as it requires them to install specialized desktop software to render the layout. Convert to SVG for scalable web delivery that preserves vector precision, or PDF for high-quality printing and archiving. If you just need a quick, universally viewable snapshot, convert to PNG. Just drop your file here to analyze and convert it securely right in your browser.
Convert.Guru analyzes your GRAPHML file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert GRAPHML file to PDF, SVG, JSON, PNG, CSV, XML, PLANTUML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI or CFG, you can use yEd or similar software from the "Network Graph Data Storage" 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 GRAPHML, try yEd or another comparable tool in the "Network Graph Data Storage" category.
The GRAPHML 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 GRAPHML converter.