Turn TSV spreadsheets into YAML. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
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Drop TSV 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 YAML, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The TSV to YAML converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your spreadsheets 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.
TSV is less widely recognised by double-click than CSV or XLSX. YAML is easier for people to read and edit than JSON and allows comments. TSV is at home in tabular data whose values contain commas; YAML is the usual choice for configuration files written by people.
The first row is read as column names, and every row after it becomes one list item, keyed by those names. A header such as address.city is turned back into a nested address with a city. Numbers and true/false in the cells are written as real numbers and booleans, but values such as ZIP codes with a leading zero, phone numbers and very long ids stay text so nothing is altered; empty cells become null.
TSV is the same idea as CSV with tabs between values, which avoids quoting problems when the data itself contains commas. It is common in scientific and export tooling.
Opens in Excel, Google Sheets, databases and any text editor
TSV converterYAML expresses the same structures as JSON using indentation instead of brackets, and allows comments. It is the usual choice for configuration in tools like Docker Compose, Kubernetes and GitHub Actions.
Opens in Any text editor
YAML converter| TSVTSV spreadsheet | YAMLYAML data | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Tab-Separated Values | YAML Ain't Markup Language |
| Type | Plain-text table | Structured data (text) |
| Compression | None | None |
| Introduced | The 1970s, by no single author (registered with IANA in 1993) | 2001, by Clark Evans, Ingy döt Net and Oren Ben-Kiki |
| Opens in | Excel, Google Sheets, databases and any text editor | Any text editor |
| Best for | Tabular data whose values contain commas | Configuration files written by people |
| File extension | .tsv, .tab | .yaml, .yml |
No. The TSV to YAML 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 YAML 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 TSV file, press Convert and save the YAML. 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.