YAML to Base64 Converter

Encode text you intend to use as YAML into Base64, or decode Base64 back into UTF-8 text, all locally in your browser.

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When to encode YAML as Base64

Base64 is useful when YAML text needs to travel through systems that expect one-line text values, such as environment variables, fixtures, JSON strings, or encoded configuration fields.

Optional validation checks YAML 1.2 core-schema syntax before encoding or after decoding. Turn it off when you need to work with unfinished YAML text.

UTF-8 safe

Accents and emoji are encoded as UTF-8 bytes. Decoding rejects invalid UTF-8 rather than silently replacing characters.

Text stays text

Encoding preserves the YAML text, including comments and indentation. It does not reformat the document.

Check the input format

Paste YAML text in Encode mode and Base64 text in Decode mode. Base64 output is an encoding of the document, not YAML syntax itself.

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