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Web Service Ideas? #11

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@jaswrks
jaswrks
opened on May 5, 2014

I'd like to explore the possibility of introducing a web service that runs the HTML Compressor. Some ideas might include...

  • An online form that would compress the contents of any URL input by a user.
  • A similar form that might accept a web address and output the entire site in a compressed/static form; i.e. a crawler that would serve as a static site generator.
  • A REST API (if we can find a way to make it useful).
  • ... I'll come back to this if I think of anything else more specific.

Of course we'd need to find a way to make this a good investment also.

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  1. jaswrks
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  2. raamdev commented on May 5, 2014

    @raamdev
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    on May 5, 2014
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    I added these thoughts in HipChat; copying them here for reference:

    I like the idea of turning it into a separate WordPress plugin (and plugin for other CMSes). The web service idea also intrigues me. It would be super cool to have a web service where we could provide the URL to a site and it would attempt to crawl the entire site, compress the output, then return the archive so it could be used as an offline/static archive. Or even a web service that allows for quickly compressing a CSS/JS file that could be integrated into a development environment to minify files before distribution (a client-side component would be needed to interface with the web service, but initially this could be a simple BASH or Python script).

  3. jaswrks
    closed this as completedon Jan 3, 2015

  4. raamdev commented on Jan 4, 2015

    @raamdev
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    on Jan 4, 2015
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    @jaswsinc I noticed you closed this issue but didn't leave a comment/reason why. Was this a mistake?

  5. jaswrks commented on Jan 4, 2015

    @jaswrks
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    on Jan 4, 2015
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    Same thing... I remember closing this. I don't really know why I did though. I was just cleaning things up. I'll open it back up until we can really say this is closed.

  6. jaswrks
    reopened this on Jan 4, 2015
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