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Formatters and converters that never see your data

Format, validate and convert the data formats you work in daily. Everything runs in your browser, so an API response full of customer records is safe to paste here.

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About these tools

This is the category where sending data to a server is least defensible and most common. The payload a developer wants to pretty-print is very often a real API response, a production log line, a database dump or a token — the exact things that should not be pasted into a stranger’s web form. Every formatter and converter here parses and re-prints in the page.

The tools parse rather than pattern-match, which is a duller claim than it sounds and matters in practice. A minifier that treats a stylesheet as text will happily corrupt a string containing braces, a `calc()` expression or an at-rule prelude. An XML formatter that treats angle brackets as structural will mangle CDATA and anything inside `xml:space="preserve"`. Converting between formats has real limits too: XML attributes, namespaces, comments and mixed content have no direct JSON equivalent, so a round trip through JSON and back is not guaranteed to return what you started with.

When something will not parse, the tools give you the line and column the parser gave up on rather than a red box saying the input was invalid — which is usually the only part of the answer you actually needed.

Frequently asked questions

Yes, in the specific sense that matters: nothing you paste leaves your browser. The page is served as static files, it has no backend, and its security policy forbids it from connecting to any host. Analytics records that a tool was run, never what was put into it.

The rest of the toolbox

Every category works the same way — the file or the text stays on your device.