# team51-w3c-validator-api

**Repository Path**: mirrors_Automattic/team51-w3c-validator-api

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: team51-w3c-validator-api
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Not specified
- **Default Branch**: trunk
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2022-07-01
- **Last Updated**: 2026-05-02

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README


## About

Originally thought as a CLI tool, this project is now an API that receives a URL as parameter, evaluates the HTML using the W3C validator, and returns the result in JSON format, ready to be posted to a P2.

It is used by the Team51 Monitor tool to evaluate our sites periodically. Results are posted on https://team51validator.wordpress.com/

The API is hosted in Team51 AWS instance.

## Installation

For local development, clone the site and run `npm install`


## Use

You can start a local Express server by running `node app.js`
```
http://localhost:3000/evaluate?url=https://url-to-evaluate.com
```

On Production, this was deployed using PM2 package: `pm2 start app.js --name "Team51 HTML Validator" -- run start`
```
http://ec2-[my-server].us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com:3000/evaluate?url=https://url-to-evaluate.com
```


 ### Known issues
 - W3C API might respond some times with two message types different than `error` and `info`. If a `fatalerror` is returned, it won't be processed correctly.