Web Service Ideas?

[jaswrks]

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.

[raamdev]

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).

[raamdev]

@jaswsinc I noticed you closed this issue but didn't leave a comment/reason why. Was this a mistake?

[jaswrks]

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.