htmlfy

Python package for HTML minification.

Installation

python3 -mpip install htmlfy

Usage

Minifing HTML markup in variable

>>> import htmlfy
>>> html = """
    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
      <head>
        <title>Hello</title>
      </head>
      <body>
        <p>hello, world!</p>
      </body>
    </html>"""
>>> htmlfy.minify_html(html)
'<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>Hello</title></head><body><p>hello, world!</p></body></html>'

Minifing HTML file

>>> import htmlfy
>>> src_path = 'my_file.html'
>>> dst_path = 'my_file.min.html'
>>> htmlfy.minify_html_file(src_path,dst_path)

Arguments

def htmlfy.minify_html(html,
                strict_spaces=True,
                no_space_between_tags=True,
                preserve=True,
                remove_comments=True,
                html5_min_attr=True,
                html5_emptytags=True
                )

def minify_html_file(source_path,minified_path,
                strict_spaces=True,
                no_space_between_tags=True,
                preserve=True,
                remove_comments=True,
                html5_min_attr=True,
                html5_emptytags=True
                )

• strict_spaces - strict all spaces(new lines, tabs and etc.) to single space. Except preserved blocks.
• no_space_between_tags - delete all spaces between tags.
• preserve - it will save all formating in <pre>,<textarea>,<script> tags. Also it will keep PHP expresions like <?php ... ?> and <?=...?>
• remove_comments - delete all types of comments from the code also from <style> and <script> like <!-- ... -->,/* ... */ or // comment. You can save the comment using <!--! ... --> format. Expressions comments like <!--[if gte IE 7]>...<![endif]--> will be preserved also.
• html5_min_attr - shrink disabled="disabled",checked="checked",selected="selected" to HTML5 notation disabled,checked and selected
• html5_emptytags - removes tailing slash in empty tags like <br />,<img ... /> or <input ... />

License

Copyright (c) 2019, Alexey Schebelev

Distributed under The BSD 3-Clause License.