rCSSmin - CSS Minifier¶

rCSSmin is a CSS minifier written in python.

The minifier is based on the semantics of the YUI compressor, which itself is based on the rule list by Isaac Schlueter.

This module is a re-implementation aiming for speed instead of maximum compression, so it can be used at runtime (rather than during a preprocessing step). rCSSmin does syntactical compression only (removing spaces, comments and possibly semicolons). It does not provide semantic compression (like removing empty blocks, collapsing redundant properties etc). It does, however, support various CSS hacks (by keeping them working as intended).

Here’s a feature list:

Strings are kept, except that escaped newlines are stripped
Space/Comments before the very end or before various characters are stripped: :{});=>],! (The colon (:) is a special case, a single space is kept if it’s outside a ruleset.)
Space/Comments at the very beginning or after various characters are stripped: {}(=:>[,!
Optional space after unicode escapes is kept, resp. replaced by a simple space
whitespaces inside url() definitions are stripped, except if it’s a quoted non-base64 data url
The nesting selector (&) is recognized
Comments starting with an exclamation mark (!) can be kept optionally.
All other comments and/or whitespace characters are replaced by a single space.
Multiple consecutive semicolons are reduced to one
The last semicolon within a ruleset is stripped
CSS Hacks supported:
- IE7 hack (>/**/)
- Mac-IE5 hack (/*\*/.../**/)
- The boxmodelhack is supported naturally because it relies on valid CSS2 strings
- Between :first-line and the following comma or curly brace a space is inserted. (apparently it’s needed for IE6)
- Same for :first-letter

rcssmin.c is a reimplementation of rcssmin.py in C and improves runtime up to factor 50 or so (depending on the input).

Supported python versions are 2.7 and 3.6+.

Development Status ¶

rCSSmin is stable.

Documentation ¶

The module provides a simple function (generated apidoc below), called cssmin which takes the script as a string and returns the minified script as a string.

The module additionally provides a “streamy” interface:

$ python -mrcssmin <css >minified

This command line interface takes two options:

-b

Keep bang-comments (Comments starting with an exclamation mark)

-p

Force using the python implementation (not the C implementation)

API Docs ¶

rcssmin.cssmin(style, keep_bang_comments=False)¶

Minify CSS.

Note:

This is a hand crafted C implementation built on the regex semantics.

Parameters:

style (str) – CSS to minify
keep_bang_comments (bool) – Keep comments starting with an exclamation mark? (/*!...*/)

Returns:

Minified style

Return type:

str

License ¶

rCSSmin is available under the terms and conditions of the “Apache License, Version 2.0.” You’ll find the detailed licensing terms in the root directory of the source distribution package or online at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.

Download ¶

Change Log ¶

CHANGES file

Source Packages ¶

Current Stable Version ¶

Integrity Check ¶

There are hashes (MD5, SHA1 and SHA256) of the download packages stored in the digests file. In order to check the integrity of the downloaded file, use a tool like md5sum (or sha1sum, sha256sum accordingly), e.g.:

$ md5sum -c rcssmin-1.2.0.digests
rcssmin-1.2.0.tar.bz2: OK
rcssmin-1.2.0.tar.gz: OK
rcssmin-1.2.0.tar.xz: OK
rcssmin-1.2.0.zip: OK

In order to check the integrity of the digest file itself, you can check the PGP signature of that file. The file is signed by André Malo, Key-ID 0x029C942244325167:

$ gpg --verify rcssmin-1.2.0.digests
gpg: Signature made Sun Nov 17 20:06:04 2024 CET
gpg:                using RSA key 21B65583FF640D34E8662B6B3DED446369F2EE1A
gpg: Good signature from "André Malo <nd@perlig.de>"

pattern = (
    r'([^\\"&\047u>@\r\n\f\040\t/;:{}+]+)|(?<=[{}(=:>[,!])((?:[\r\n'
    r'\f\040\t]|(?:/\*[^*]*\*+(?:[^/*][^*]*\*+)*/))+)|^((?:[\r\n\f\0'
    r'40\t]|(?:/\*[^*]*\*+(?:[^/*][^*]*\*+)*/))+)|(?<!&)((?:[\r\n\f'
    r'\040\t]|(?:/\*[^*]*\*+(?:[^/*][^*]*\*+)*/))+)(?=(([:{});=>\],!'
    r'])|$)?)|;((?:[\r\n\f\040\t]|(?:/\*[^*]*\*+(?:[^/*][^*]*\*+)*/)'
    r')*(?:;(?:[\r\n\f\040\t]|(?:/\*[^*]*\*+(?:[^/*][^*]*\*+)*/))*)*'
    r')(?=(\})?)|(\{)|(\})|((?:(?:\047[^\047\\\r\n\f]*(?:\\[^\r\n\f]'
    r'[^\047\\\r\n\f]*)*\047)|(?:"[^"\\\r\n\f]*(?:\\[^\r\n\f][^"\\\r'
    r'\n\f]*)*")))|(?<![^\000-\054\056\057\072-\100\133-\136\140\173'
    r'-\177])url\([\r\n\f\040\t]*((?:(?:\047[^\047\\]*(?:\\(?:[^\r]|'
    r'\r\n?)[^\047\\]*)*\047)|(?:"[^"\\]*(?:\\(?:[^\r]|\r\n?)[^"\\]*'
    r')*"))|(?:(?:[^\000-\040"\047()\\\177]*(?:(?:\\(?:[0-9a-fA-F]{1'
    r',6}(?:[\040\n\t\f]|\r\n?)?|[^\n\r\f0-9a-fA-F]))[^\000-\040"\04'
    r'7()\\\177]*)*)(?:(?:[\r\n\f\040\t]+|(?:\\(?:[\n\f]|\r\n?))+)(?'
    r':(?:[^\000-\040"\047()\\\177]|(?:\\(?:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,6}(?:[\040'
    r'\n\t\f]|\r\n?)?|[^\n\r\f0-9a-fA-F]))|(?:\\(?:[\n\f]|\r\n?)))[^'
    r'\000-\040"\047()\\\177]*(?:(?:\\(?:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,6}(?:[\040\n'
    r'\t\f]|\r\n?)?|[^\n\r\f0-9a-fA-F]))[^\000-\040"\047()\\\177]*)*'
    r')+)*))[\r\n\f\040\t]*\)|(@(?:[mM][eE][dD][iI][aA]|[sS][uU][pP]'
    r'[pP][oO][rR][tT][sS]|[dD][oO][cC][uU][mM][eE][nN][tT]|(?:-(?:['
    r'wW][eE][bB][kK][iI][tT]|[mM][oO][zZ]|[oO]|[mM][sS])-)?[kK][eE]'
    r'[yY][fF][rR][aA][mM][eE][sS]))(?![^\000-\054\056\057\072-\100'
    r'\133-\136\140\173-\177])|(&)((?:[\r\n\f\040\t]|(?:/\*[^*]*\*+('
    r'?:[^/*][^*]*\*+)*/))+)(?=(.|$))|((?:>/\*\*/))((?:[\r\n\f\040\t'
    r']|(?:/\*[^*]*\*+(?:[^/*][^*]*\*+)*/))*)|(:[fF][iI][rR][sS][tT]'
    r'-[lL](?:[iI][nN][eE]|[eE][tT][tT][eE][rR]))((?:[\r\n\f\040\t]|'
    r'(?:/\*[^*]*\*+(?:[^/*][^*]*\*+)*/))*)(?=[{,])|((?:(?:\047[^\04'
    r'7\\\r\n\f]*(?:\\(?:[^\r]|\r\n?)[^\047\\\r\n\f]*)*\047)|(?:"[^"'
    r'\\\r\n\f]*(?:\\(?:[^\r]|\r\n?)[^"\\\r\n\f]*)*")))|((?:\\(?:[0-'
    r'9a-fA-F]{1,6}(?:[\040\n\t\f]|\r\n?)?|[^\n\r\f0-9a-fA-F]))[^\\"'
    r'\047u>@\r\n\f\040\t/;:{}+]*)'
)