YAML Sorter

Effortlessly organize and sort your YAML data online. Our YAML sorter tool allows you to quickly rearrange and structure your YAML by keys or values.

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About the YAML Sorter Tool

Our free online YAML Sorter helps you organize and rearrange your YAML data. Paste your YAML or upload a file, choose your sorting preferences (by key name, key value, or key length), and get a neatly structured YAML output. This is useful for improving readability, ensuring consistent ordering, or preparing YAML data for other processes.

Why Sort YAML?

While YAML's primary feature is human readability, sorted YAML can further enhance this, especially for complex configurations or data files:

  • Consistency: Ensures that similar structures always appear in the same order, which is helpful for version control and diffing.
  • Easier Navigation: Alphabetically sorted keys make it quicker to find specific entries in large mapping nodes.
  • Predictable Output: Useful when YAML is machine-generated or processed if a consistent order is required.
  • Data Analysis: Sorting arrays of objects by a specific key's value can aid in understanding and analyzing the data.

How to Use This Tool

  • Enter your YAML data into the input editor on the left.
  • Alternatively, click "Open YAML File..." to upload a .yaml or .yml file.
  • Select your desired "Sort Method" from the dropdown. Options include sorting object keys by name or length, or sorting arrays of objects by a specific key's value.
  • If sorting by "Key Value", enter the target "Key Name" in the text box.
  • The tool will automatically update the sorted YAML in the output editor if "Auto Update" is checked. Otherwise, click the "Sort YAML" button.
  • If there are syntax errors in your YAML, an error message will be displayed.
  • Use the "Copy YAML" or "Download YAML" buttons to save your sorted output.

This tool uses the js-yaml library for parsing and re-serializing your YAML, with custom JavaScript logic for the sorting operations, all done securely in your browser.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does a YAML Sorter do?

A YAML Sorter parses your YAML data into its underlying JavaScript representation (objects and arrays), applies sorting logic based on your chosen method (e.g., sort object keys alphabetically, sort an array of objects by a specific value), and then re-serializes it back into a well-formatted YAML string.

What sorting options are available?

You can sort the keys within YAML mappings (objects) alphabetically (ascending/descending) or by key length. If your YAML represents a list of mappings, you can sort this list based on the values of a specified key within those mappings (ascending/descending, numerically or alphabetically).

Will this tool change my data values?

No, this tool only rearranges the order of keys or the order of items in a list based on your selection. The actual values associated with the keys will remain unchanged.

Is my YAML data uploaded to a server?

No. All parsing, sorting, and re-formatting happen locally in your web browser using JavaScript. Your YAML data is never sent to our servers.

Is this YAML sorter free?

Yes, this online YAML Sorter tool is completely free to use without any usage restrictions.

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