Env Yaml Converter API

POST https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/env-yaml-converter/execute

Convert a dotenv .env file to a flat YAML map, or YAML back to KEY=value lines. The shape option wraps the map as a pasteable Docker Compose (services.app.environment) or GitHub Actions (jobs.app.env) snippet rather than a whole file. Comments, blank lines and an "export " prefix are handled, and a duplicate key keeps the last value and is reported. Values stay strings unless infer_types is on, matching what process.env returns. The reverse direction accepts a flat mapping or one of those snippet shapes and rejects nested values instead of inventing nested names. Not a Kubernetes Secret generator and not a shell parser.

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Request body

application/json

input

string required

The .env text or the YAML document to convert.
mode

string optional

Conversion direction. Default: env-to-yaml. One of env-to-yaml · yaml-to-env. Default "env-to-yaml".
shape

string optional

env-to-yaml: "plain" is a flat map (default); "compose" wraps it under services.app.environment; "actions" wraps it under jobs.app.env. One of plain · compose · actions. Default "plain".
indent

integer optional

env-to-yaml: YAML indentation width (1-8). Default: 2. Default 2.
infer_types

boolean optional

env-to-yaml: turn unquoted numbers, true, false and null into YAML types. Default: false (every value stays a string, as process.env returns it). Default false.
skip_empty

boolean optional

Leave out keys whose value is empty. Default: false. Default false.
export_prefix

boolean optional

yaml-to-env: prefix every line with "export ". Default: false. Default false.

Example arguments

Verified

{
  "input": "API_URL=https://example.com\nDEBUG=true"
}

curl -X POST https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/env-yaml-converter/execute \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "input": "API_URL=https://example.com\nDEBUG=true"
  }'

const response = await fetch('https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/env-yaml-converter/execute', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
  body: JSON.stringify({"input":"API_URL=https://example.com\nDEBUG=true"}),
});
const data = await response.json();

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/env-yaml-converter/execute",
    json={"input":"API_URL=https://example.com\nDEBUG=True"},
)
data = response.json()

$ch = curl_init('https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/env-yaml-converter/execute');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_POST => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['Content-Type: application/json'],
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => '{"input":"API_URL=https://example.com\nDEBUG=true"}',
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
]);
$data = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);

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Call env_yaml_converter from Claude, Cursor or any MCP client. Same arguments, same output.

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Rate limit: 60 a minute, per IP
Auth: None
REST id: env-yaml-converter
MCP name: env_yaml_converter
Category: Data
Machine-readable: openapi.json · markdown.md

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