Originally thought as a CLI tool, this project is now an API that receives a URL as parameter, evaluates the HTML using the W3C validator, and returns the result in JSON format, ready to be posted to a P2.
It is used by the Team51 Monitor tool to evaluate our sites periodically. Results are posted on https://team51validator.wordpress.com/
The API is hosted in Team51 AWS instance.
For local development, clone the site and run npm install
You can start a local Express server by running node app.js
http://localhost:3000/evaluate?url=https://url-to-evaluate.com
On Production, this was deployed using PM2 package: pm2 start app.js --name "Team51 HTML Validator" -- run start
http://ec2-[my-server].us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com:3000/evaluate?url=https://url-to-evaluate.com
- W3C API might respond some times with two message types different than
errorandinfo. If afatalerroris returned, it won't be processed correctly.