Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your YAML file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert YAML to another file type
To convert your YAML file to another format, you need Visual Studio Code or other Developer software.
Convert a file to YAML
To convert other file formats to the "Configuration File" file type, you need software like Visual Studio Code or a similar tool.
About YAML files
The .yaml extension represents a file written in YAML (YAML Ain't Markup Language), a human-readable data serialization standard widely used for configuration files and data exchange. It is the backbone of modern DevOps and API development, serving as the default format for Kubernetes manifests, Ansible playbooks, and OpenAPI (formerly Swagger) specifications. Unlike XML or JSON, YAML relies on significant whitespace (indentation) rather than brackets or tags, making it cleaner to read for humans but notoriously fragile to edit; a single accidental tab character or misplaced space can break the entire file structure. Furthermore, because .yaml files are hierarchical text documents, they cannot be natively opened or analyzed in spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel or viewed in standard web browsers. Users frequently convert .yaml to JSON for web integration and strict parsing, to XML for legacy system compatibility, or to CSV / XLSX to flatten the data for easy viewing and reporting in spreadsheets. Archive-ready documentation can also be generated by converting API definitions to PDF.
Convert.Guru analyzes your YAML file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert YAML file to JSON, PROPERTIES, JMX, XML, JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, C, CS or PHP, you can use Visual Studio Code or similar software from the "Data Serialization & Configuration" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SH, PY, KT, PS1, SWIFT, LUA, PL, JAVA, SCALA, JS, VBS or TS files to YAML, try Visual Studio Code or another comparable tool in the "Data Serialization & Configuration" category.
The YAML 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 YAML converter.