Minimize your HTML file with a command line interface (CLI) using Python.

minimize-html-python-cli.py

import argparse
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# parse command line arguments
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Minimize HTML code')
parser.add_argument('input_file', type=str, help='path to the input HTML file')
parser.add_argument('output_file', type=str, help='path to the output HTML file')
args = parser.parse_args()

# read the HTML file
with open(args.input_file, 'r') as f:
    html = f.read()

# parse the HTML using BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')

# remove whitespace
for element in soup.recursiveChildGenerator():
    if hasattr(element, 'strip') and callable(element.strip):
        element.strip()

# minimize the HTML
minimized_html = str(soup).replace('\n', '').replace('\t', '')

# write the minimized HTML to a file
with open(args.output_file, 'w') as f:
    f.write(minimized_html)

notes.md

Run the script using the following command:

python minimize_html.py src.html dist.html

Where src.html is the input file and dist.html is the output file.