YAML-Doctor 🩺📄
Validate – and automatically fix duplicate keys – in Home-Assistant-style YAML files.
No more mysterious “duplicated mapping key” errors breaking your automations!
✨ Features
- Fast validation of any YAML file (Home Assistant, ESPHome, CI pipelines, etc.)
- Smart auto-fix
--fixflag renames duplicate keys in-place (optionally backs up originals) - Colorful Rich output for quick at-a-glance feedback
- Zero-config CLI – just run
yaml-doctor your_file.yaml - Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux (Python ≥ 3.9)
📦 Installation
User install (from PyPI – easiest)
pip install yaml-doctor
🚀 Usage
Goal Command
Validate only yaml-doctor ENTER YOUR FILE.yaml
Validate & auto-fix duplicates yaml-doctor path/to/file.yaml --fix
Show full CLI help yaml-doctor --help
## EXAMPLE
yaml-doctor secrets.yaml --fix
# 🔍 Running validation before fix…
# ❌ Duplicate key “sensor” found at line 12 – renaming to sensor_1
# 🎉 File fixed successfully.
📄 License
MIT © Jason Clark – use it, ship it, enjoy fewer YAML headaches!
1 maintainer
Metadata
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