# Install htmlcompressor with Homebrew

Minify HTML or XML. Version 1.5.3 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-13.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:htmlcompressor
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install htmlcompressor
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:htmlcompressor
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.5.3
- **Source summary:** Minify HTML or XML
- **Homepage:** <https://code.google.com/archive/p/htmlcompressor/>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-13T23:34:59+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- htmlcompressor (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.5.3
## Project history and usage

HTML Compressor is a Java HTML/XML minifier that removes unnecessary whitespace, comments, and other bytes without intentionally changing document structure. The original project lived on Google Code, then survived through an exported GitHub repository and Maven coordinates.

### Project history

The preserved ChangeLog begins with an initial 0.1 release on March 7, 2009, followed quickly by XML compression, JSP and Velocity integration, command-line support, and JavaScript/CSS compression hooks. Version 1.4 in 2011 completed a Maven migration and made the project available as a Maven artifact.

Google Code archival pages preserve the old project, while the hazendaz GitHub repository describes itself as an automatic export from code.google.com/p/htmlcompressor. The GitHub README also records the later split between 1.x for javax namespace support and 2.x for jakarta namespace support.

### Adoption history

The original Maven coordinates under com.googlecode.htmlcompressor reached Maven Central in 2011, and later com.github.hazendaz coordinates carried the project forward. Homebrew packages the command-line form, which keeps the tool available to shell users even though the codebase is primarily a Java library.

### How it is used

The compressor is used to shrink HTML or XML by removing comments, repeated spaces, optional quotes, protocol prefixes, and inline CSS or JavaScript overhead depending on options. It also includes command-line, JSP taglib, Velocity directive, and Java API workflows.

### Why package nerds care

HTML Compressor is a time capsule from the Google Code and early Maven era of web performance tooling. Package nerds care because it connects a Java library, old Google Code docs, Maven artifacts, and a Homebrew CLI wrapper around the once-common task of pre-minifying server-rendered pages.

### Timeline

- 2009: Version 0.1 was released, followed by XML compressor, JSP taglib, Velocity, and command-line additions.
- 2011: Version 1.4 migrated the project to Maven and published it as a Maven artifact.
- 2012: Version 1.5.3 was released in the original ChangeLog line.
- 2015: The GitHub repository was created as an export from Google Code.
- 2025: GitHub releases show maintained 1.x and 2.x lines for javax and jakarta namespaces.
- 2026: The GitHub release stream continued with paired 1.x and 2.x artifacts.

### Related projects

- Related tools include YUI Compressor, Google Closure Compiler, HTML Tidy, html-minifier, and build-pipeline minifiers that compress HTML, CSS, and JavaScript assets.

### Sources

- Maven Central and Homebrew metadata document package-manager distribution.
- The GitHub ChangeLog documents the original 2009-2012 release line.
- The GitHub README documents the Google Code export, package contents, command-line usage, and javax/jakarta version split.


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/htmlcompressor.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/htmlcompressor.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph