HTML Viewer - Minify HTML

When you are looking for the ways to optimize the rendering of documents into HTML, one of the solutions you might want to use is the compression of the output content (HTML, CSS, and SVG). This solution is suitable in case you are providing your content from the web server over the internet. The lower the content user has to download, the faster he will see the rendered document.

GroupDocs.Viewer provides a new Minify property of the HtmlOptions class, that lets you get output content minified. Minification removes comments, extra white-spaces, and other unneeded characters without breaking the content structure. As a result, the page becomes smaller in size and loads faster. The following example demonstrates how to minify output content when rendering MS Word document into HTML.

The following code sample shows how to enable minification.

This setting will not compress the content as significantly as this might be achieved using Gzip compression (that should be enabled and configured from your webserver). But it still might be valuable and can be used as additional optimization in combination with Gzip compression.

API Usage

There are steps that usage of GroupDocs.Viewer Cloud consists of:

  1. Upload input document into cloud storage
  2. Render document or get document info
  3. Download rendered document from storage

Steps 1 and 3 are storage operations, please refer to this File API documentation for usage details.

Swagger UI lets you call this REST API directly from the browser.

cURL example

# First get JSON Web Token
# Please get your Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud/applications. Kindly place Client Id in "client_id" and Client Secret in "client_secret" argument.
curl -v "https://api.groupdocs.cloud/connect/token" \
-X POST \
-d "grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=xxxx&client_secret=xxxx" \
-H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \
-H "Accept: application/json"

# cURL example to get document information
curl -v "https://api.groupdocs.cloud/v2.0/viewer/view" \
-X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <jwt token>"
-d "{
  'FileInfo': {
    'FilePath': 'SampleFiles/sample.docx'
  },
  'ViewFormat': 'HTML',
  'RenderOptions': {
     'Minify': true
  }
}"
{
  "pages": [
    {
      "number": 1,
      "resources": null,
      "path": "viewer/sample_docx/sample_page_1.html",
      "downloadUrl": "https://api.groupdocs.cloud/v2.0/viewer/storage/file/viewer/sample_docx/sample_page_1.html"
    },
    {
      "number": 2,
      "resources": null,
      "path": "viewer/sample_docx/sample_page_2.html",
      "downloadUrl": "https://api.groupdocs.cloud/v2.0/viewer/storage/file/viewer/sample_docx/sample_page_2.html"
    },
    {
      "number": 3,
      "resources": null,
      "path": "viewer/sample_docx/sample_page_3.html",
      "downloadUrl": "https://api.groupdocs.cloud/v2.0/viewer/storage/file/viewer/sample_docx/sample_page_3.html"
    }
  ],
  "attachments": [],
  "file": null
}

SDK examples

The API is completely independent of your operating system, database system or development language. We provide and support API SDKs in many development languages in order to make it even easier to integrate. You can see our available SDKs list here.

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer-cloud/groupdocs-viewer-cloud-dotnet-samples
string MyClientSecret = ""; // Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud
string MyClientId = ""; // Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud

var configuration = new Configuration(MyClientId, MyClientSecret);
var apiInstance = new ViewApi(configuration);

var viewOptions = new ViewOptions
{
    FileInfo = new FileInfo
    {
        FilePath = "SampleFiles/sample.docx"
    },
    ViewFormat = ViewOptions.ViewFormatEnum.HTML,
    RenderOptions = new HtmlOptions
    {
        Minify = true
    }
};

var response = apiInstance.CreateView(new CreateViewRequest(viewOptions));
// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer-cloud/groupdocs-viewer-cloud-php-samples
use GroupDocs\Viewer\Model;
use GroupDocs\Viewer\Model\Requests;

$ClientId = ""; // Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud
$ClientSecret = ""; // Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud

$configuration = new GroupDocs\Viewer\Configuration();
$configuration->setAppSid($ClientId);
$configuration->setAppKey($ClientSecret);

$apiInstance = new GroupDocs\Viewer\ViewApi($configuration);

$viewOptions = new Model\ViewOptions();
$fileInfo = new Model\FileInfo();
$fileInfo->setFilePath("SampleFiles/sample.docx");
$viewOptions->setFileInfo($fileInfo);
$viewOptions->setViewFormat(Model\ViewOptions::VIEW_FORMAT_HTML);
$renderOptions = new Model\HtmlOptions();
$renderOptions->setMinify(true);
$viewOptions->setRenderOptions($renderOptions);

$request = new Requests\CreateViewRequest($viewOptions);
$response = $apiInstance->createView($request);
// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer-cloud/groupdocs-viewer-cloud-java-samples
string MyClientSecret = ""; // Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud
string MyClientId = ""; // Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud

Configuration configuration = new Configuration(MyClientId, MyClientSecret);
ViewApi apiInstance = new ViewApi(configuration);

FileInfo fileInfo = new FileInfo();
fileInfo.setFilePath("SampleFiles/sample.docx");
ViewOptions viewOptions = new ViewOptions();
viewOptions.setFileInfo(fileInfo);
viewOptions.setViewFormat(ViewFormatEnum.HTML);
HtmlOptions renderOptions = new HtmlOptions();
renderOptions.setMinify(true);
viewOptions.setRenderOptions(renderOptions);

ViewResult response = apiInstance.createView(new CreateViewRequest(viewOptions));

# For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer-cloud/groupdocs-viewer-cloud-ruby-samples
require 'groupdocs_viewer_cloud'

$client_id = "XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX" # Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud
$client_secret = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" # Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud

apiInstance = GroupDocsViewerCloud::ViewApi.from_keys($client_id, $client_secret)

viewOptions = GroupDocsViewerCloud::ViewOptions.new
viewOptions.file_info = GroupDocsViewerCloud::FileInfo.new
viewOptions.file_info.file_path = "SampleFiles/sample.docx"
viewOptions.view_format = "HTML"
viewOptions.render_options = GroupDocsViewerCloud::HtmlOptions.new
viewOptions.render_options.minify = true

request = GroupDocsViewerCloud::CreateViewRequest.new(viewOptions)
response = apiInstance.create_view(request)
// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer-cloud/groupdocs-viewer-cloud-node-samples
global.viewer# require("groupdocs-viewer-cloud");

global.clientId = "XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX"; // Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud
global.clientSecret = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"; // Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud

global.viewApi = viewer_cloud.ViewApi.fromKeys(clientId, clientSecret);

let fileInfo = new viewer_cloud.FileInfo();
fileInfo.filePath = "SampleFiles/sample.docx";
let viewOptions = new viewer_cloud.ViewOptions();
viewOptions.fileInfo = fileInfo;
viewOptions.viewFormat = viewer_cloud.ViewOptions.ViewFormatEnum.HTML;
viewOptions.renderOptions = new viewer_cloud.HtmlOptions();
viewOptions.renderOptions.minify = true;
let request = new viewer_cloud.CreateViewRequest(viewOptions);
let response = await viewApi.createView(request);
# For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer-cloud/groupdocs-viewer-cloud-python-samples
import groupdocs_viewer_cloud

client_id = "XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX" # Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud
client_secret = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" # Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud

apiInstance = groupdocs_viewer_cloud.ViewApi.from_keys(client_id, client_secret)

view_options = groupdocs_viewer_cloud.ViewOptions()
view_options.file_info = groupdocs_viewer_cloud.FileInfo()
view_options.file_info.file_path = "SampleFiles/sample.docx"
view_options.view_format = "HTML"
view_options.render_options = groupdocs_viewer_cloud.HtmlOptions()
view_options.render_options.minify = True

request = groupdocs_viewer_cloud.CreateViewRequest(view_options)
response = apiInstance.create_view(request)