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tdewolff-minify
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Python bindings for the Go minifiers for web formats minify, see github.com/tdewolff/minify.
Make sure to have Go installed.
There are three functions available in Python: configure the minifiers, minify a string, and minify a file. Below an example of their usage:
import minify
# default config option values
minify.config({
'css-precision': 0,
'html-keep-comments': False,
'html-keep-conditional-comments': False,
'html-keep-default-attr-vals': False,
'html-keep-document-tags': False,
'html-keep-end-tags': False,
'html-keep-whitespace': False,
'html-keep-quotes': False,
'js-precision': 0,
'js-keep-var-names': False,
'js-version': 0,
'json-precision': 0,
'json-keep-numbers': False,
'svg-keep-comments': False,
'svg-precision': 0,
'xml-keep-whitespace': False,
})
s = minify.string('text/html', '<span style="color:#ff0000;" class="text">Some text</span>')
print(s) # <span style=color:red class=text>Some text</span>
minify.file('text/html', 'example.html', 'example.min.html') # creates example.min.html
The first argument is the mediatype of the content. The following mediatypes correspond to the configured minifiers:
text/css: CSStext/html: HTMLimage/svg+xml: SVG(application|text)/(x-)?(java|ecma)script: JS*/json */*-json: JSON*/xml */*-xml: XMLFAQs
Go minifiers for web formats
We found that tdewolff-minify demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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