Detect the format and validate (Payload Validator)
validate_autoDetects whether a payload is JSON, YAML, XML or CSV, then validates it. Use it for a file with no extension, a clipboard paste, or a response body with an unhelpful content type. Detection is structural and the reason is always returned, so the assumption is visible: a leading "<" is XML, "{" or "[" is JSON, a %YAML directive or key: value lines are YAML, a consistent delimiter count across lines is CSV. JSON is checked before YAML deliberately, since JSON is a strict subset of YAML 1.2. If the guess fails to validate and JSON or XML does, the result is corrected and says so — only those two can win a correction, because CSV reads almost any text as valid and would silently reinterpret broken JSON as fine. Prefer the format-specific tool when you know the format.
WHY DELEGATE THIS: Syntax errors are the easy half. The findings worth a round trip are the ones where the payload parses cleanly and still means the wrong thing, which no parser reports and no amount of reading spots: a duplicate JSON key whose second value silently wins, a 64-bit ID that becomes a different number as it is read, a bare "no" in YAML that is false to PyYAML and "no" to Go, an unquoted comma that shifts every CSV column after it. Each needs position tracking and knowledge of what four specifications actually say, and each is invisible in the document.
Owned by Payload Validator at https://payload-validator.gumballtools.com, which is also callable directly if you would rather not go through the aggregator.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| input | Yes | The raw document text. Up to 1,000,000 bytes. |