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Convert JSON to readable YAML, with strings quoted only where YAML would otherwise change their meaning.

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YAML is JSON with the punctuation taken out, which makes it pleasant to read and easy to get subtly wrong. The serialiser here quotes a string exactly when leaving it bare would change its meaning: "true", "3.14", "null", "12:30", anything starting with a dash or ending in a space.

Multi-line strings are written as block scalars rather than escaped into one long line, because the point of converting to YAML is usually that a person is going to read it.

Key order is preserved. The conversion runs in your browser and the document is never uploaded, which matters more than usual here: the files people convert to YAML are configuration, and configuration holds secrets.

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