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JSON Files

JSON compression focuses on removing verbosity while maintaining structure.

Minimal Level:

• Remove whitespace and indentation
• Strip null values (configurable)
• Remove empty arrays/objects

Moderate Level:

• All minimal optimizations
• Remove optional fields (description, metadata, etc.)
• Round numbers to 2 decimal places
• Deduplicate repeated objects
• Shorten long string values

Aggressive Level:

• All moderate optimizations
• Keep only critical fields (id, name, core data)
• Round to integers where possible
• Sample large arrays (keep every nth item)
• Replace verbose values with abbreviations

Example:

// Original (428 bytes)
{
  "users": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "name": "John Doe",
      "email": "john@example.com",
      "bio": "Software engineer with 10 years experience...",
      "score": 87.6543,
      "metadata": {
        "created": "2023-01-15",
        "updated": "2024-01-15"
      }
    }
  ]
}

// Moderate (156 bytes, 64% reduction)
{"users":[{"id":1,"name":"John Doe","email":"john@example.com","score":87.65}]}

CSV Files

CSV compression removes unnecessary columns and rows while preserving data structure.

Minimal Level:

• Remove empty rows and columns
• Trim whitespace from cells
• Remove duplicate rows

Moderate Level:

• All minimal optimizations
• Remove low-variance columns (all same value)
• Round numeric values
• Truncate long text fields

Aggressive Level:

• All moderate optimizations
• Keep only first N columns
• Sample rows (every nth row)
• Remove non-essential columns entirely

JavaScript Files

JavaScript compression focuses on minification and code reduction.

Minimal Level:

• Remove comments and docstrings
• Remove whitespace and newlines
• Preserve all functional code

Moderate Level:

• All minimal optimizations
• Shorten variable names
• Remove console.log statements
• Simplify expressions

Aggressive Level:

• All moderate optimizations
• Remove debug code and assertions
• Inline small functions
• Remove error handling (try/catch)

HTML/CSS Files

Web file compression removes formatting and optional elements.

Minimal Level:

• Remove comments and whitespace
• Remove optional closing tags
• Minify inline CSS/JS

Moderate Level:

• All minimal optimizations
• Remove data attributes
• Shorten color codes (#ffffff → #fff)
• Remove unused CSS rules

Aggressive Level:

• All moderate optimizations
• Remove accessibility attributes
• Strip meta tags
• Inline critical CSS only

SQL Files

SQL compression focuses on query optimization and formatting removal.

Minimal Level:

• Remove comments and whitespace
• Remove formatting and indentation
• Preserve all queries

Moderate Level:

• All minimal optimizations
• Shorten table/column aliases
• Remove optional keywords
• Combine related statements

Aggressive Level:

• All moderate optimizations
• Remove CREATE/DROP statements
• Keep only INSERT/UPDATE/SELECT
• Sample large data sets

XML/YAML Files

Structured data compression removes verbosity and optional elements.

Minimal Level:

• Remove whitespace and formatting
• Remove comments
• Remove optional attributes

Moderate Level:

• All minimal optimizations
• Remove namespace declarations
• Shorten element names
• Remove metadata elements

Aggressive Level:

• All moderate optimizations
• Keep only core data elements
• Flatten nested structures
• Convert to minimal schema

// Download your manifest
GET /api/manifest/:manifestId

// Response includes recovery information
{
  "operations": [
    {"type": "remove_whitespace", "reversible": true},
    {"type": "remove_field", "field": "metadata", "reversible": false},
    {"type": "round_numbers", "precision": 2, "reversible": false}
  ],
  "reversibility": "Partially recoverable"
}