anew

Publish a web page: encode one self-contained HTML document (or fragment, or plain text) into an anew.page URL and return that URL. Use it when the user asks for a page, a site or a link they can open and share. The page is carried in the URL itself — no account, and no copy of the page is kept — so anyone who has the URL can open it; each call also starts a screenshot of the page, cached publicly for link previews. Put markup and inline CSS in html and any JavaScript in javascript as plain source; the server inserts it before </body>. Inline the page's CSS, scripts and images so it renders on its own; a webfont may load from a CDN. Each encoding path is deterministic: the same input through the same path always produces the same URL. Different paths use different Brotli encoders, though, so the same HTML may mint different — equally valid — URLs; compare pages by their decoded HTML, never by slug. Limits: a page whose URL would pass 4000 bytes, or whose HTML passes 1048576 bytes decoded, is refused with an error that states the size and the overage; apps cut longer links short when they are shared. To revise an existing anew page, its URL is its source: read it, edit that HTML, write it again. The new URL is a separate page and the original keeps working. Read it with anew_read first, then call this with the edited HTML.

Open anew from the sidebar: the editor, fullscreen, on a new blank page. Takes no arguments.

Open a page in the anew editor beside the chat, so the user can edit it by hand: pass an anew.page URL to open that page, or nothing for a new blank page. The editor reports the page it holds back to the chat after every edit. Call it only when the user asks to open the editor or to edit a page themselves; anew_write and anew_read do everything else.

Pass an anew.page URL, get back the HTML document encoded in it, plus its canonical URL and byte size. (Two in-page tools share this name and take no arguments: the editor's reads the document open in the editor, and a rendered page's reads the page being viewed. This one takes a url and reads that page.) To revise an existing anew page, its URL is its source: read it, edit that HTML, write it again. The new URL is a separate page and the original keeps working. Read returns the author's exact bytes — no anew-injected tags, no proxied image srcs — so it re-encodes byte-for-byte. Never re-author from a rendered page, a scraped DOM, or a screenshot: each loses the author's markup, and none is faster than reading the slug. Decoding is local and exact, so any anew URL reads — the page needs no prior visit and no fetch.