Turn NDJSON data files into PARQUET. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop NDJSON files here
or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V
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Drop NDJSON (JSON Lines, JSONL, LDJSON) files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. ToAny reads the file's contents to detect the type, so a wrong extension does not matter.
Press Convert. There is nothing else to set. The work happens in this tab.
Save the PARQUET, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The NDJSON to PARQUET converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your data files are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so the conversion starts the moment you press Convert, even on a slow connection.
No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.
NDJSON is not a single valid JSON document, so ordinary JSON tools reject it. Parquet is compact, typed and fast to analyse. NDJSON is at home in logs and large record streams that are processed line by line; PARQUET is the usual choice for large analytical datasets.
Each line must be one complete JSON value and blank lines are skipped; if a line is not valid JSON the conversion stops and the message names its line number. Each column gets one type chosen from all of its values: a column is numeric only if every non-empty cell is a number, and anything mixed, or a value such as a ZIP code with a leading zero, stays text.
NDJSON writes one complete JSON value per line, with no enclosing array or commas between records. A program can read, append or process it one line at a time without loading the whole file, which makes it popular for logs, exports and data loading. JSON Lines (.jsonl) is the same format under another name.
Opens in Text editors, jq, pandas, BigQuery and most data tools
NDJSON converterParquet stores a table column by column, with the type of every column recorded in the file and each column compressed on its own. That makes it small and quick to scan for analysis, which is why data lakes and warehouses use it. It cannot be read in a text editor or a spreadsheet.
Opens in pandas, Spark, DuckDB, BigQuery, Snowflake and other analytics tools; not Excel
PARQUET converter| NDJSONNewline-delimited JSON | PARQUETApache Parquet table | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Newline-Delimited JSON | Apache Parquet |
| Type | Plain-text records | Columnar data file |
| Compression | None | Lossless (per column: Snappy, Zstandard, gzip and others) |
| Introduced | The early 2010s, by no single standards body (a community convention) | 2013, by Twitter and Cloudera, now the Apache Software Foundation |
| Opens in | Text editors, jq, pandas, BigQuery and most data tools | pandas, Spark, DuckDB, BigQuery, Snowflake and other analytics tools; not Excel |
| Best for | Logs and large record streams that are processed line by line | Large analytical datasets |
| File extension | .ndjson, .ldjson | .parquet |
No. The NDJSON to PARQUET conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
The values are kept. Anything PARQUET has no way to express, such as formatting, formulas or nesting, is simplified or left out.
Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.
The steps are the same everywhere because ToAny runs in the web browser: open this page in a current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, add the NDJSON file, press Convert and save the PARQUET. There is nothing to install.
Yes. Data files up to 300 MB are accepted; a larger file is refused with a message. Beyond that the limit is your device's memory, since nothing is uploaded; a computer copes with large files better than a phone.