#yaml

Read and write the front-matter metadata block at the top of Markdown and content files — the --- ... --- header used by Jekyll, Hugo, Astro, Eleventy, Gatsby, Next.js MDX and Obsidian. The parse endpoint splits a document into its structured front-matter data (title, tags, date, draft flags and anything else, as proper JSON), the body content and an optional excerpt, and tells you whether front matter was present. The stringify endpoint does the reverse: give it a JSON object of fields and a body, and it returns a clean Markdown file with a YAML front-matter block. Front matter is read as YAML (which also accepts JSON). Perfect for static-site build steps, headless-CMS imports, content migrations and validating posts. Pure local computation — no key, no third-party service, instant; send large documents via POST. Live, nothing stored. 3 endpoints. Distinct from Markdown rendering / table-of-contents extraction and from YAML/TOML format conversion.

api.oanor.com/frontmatter-api

Convert, validate and tidy YAML through a fast, fully-local API. Turn YAML into JSON (including multi-document streams) or JSON into clean YAML with optional key sorting and custom indentation, validate a document and get the exact line and column of any syntax error with a context snippet, or reformat and normalize existing YAML. Inputs can be sent as a raw text/plain body, a JSON field or a query parameter; outputs are tidy JSON. Pure server-side compute with no third-party upstream, so responses are instant and the service is always available. Ideal for DevOps and CI/CD, configuration and infrastructure-as-code tooling, no-code platforms, editors and data pipelines.

api.oanor.com/yaml-api