Oops got totally carried away. This will crunch and obfuscate a javascript. It has been tested on one 25k javascript and did not break it but.... that's not what you call intensive QA. If anyone wants to test it and offer some feedback - ie broke script or didn't break script that would be useful. This probably has some real utility as it condensed a script I use a lot from 25k to 8k - that's a way faster download. I was amazed that that comments/whitespace/function and var names make up fully 2/3 of the code.

Note that we list the change in function names so you can modify the HTML as required. You could automate this pretty easily with HTML::Parser.

Update 1

Modified original code to deal with quoted strings appropriately and added a hint of documentation

Update 2

Modified to put each function on its own line as intended.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
my ( $data, %funcs, %globals );
open JS, $ARGV[0] or die "Useage $0 <file>\nCan't open '$ARGV[0]': $!\
+n";
local $/;
$data = <JS>;
close JS;
my $was = length $data;

$data =~ s|//.*\n|\n|g;     # strip single line comments
$data =~ s|/\*.*?\*/||gs;   # strip multi-line comments
$data =~ s|^\s*\n||gm;      # strip blank lines
$data =~ s|^\s+||gm;        # strip leading whitespace
$data =~ s|\s+$||gm;        # strip trailing whitespace

# do the magic and split into functions
my @functions = split /(?=\bfunction\s)/, $data;

# map function names to new names starting with 'a'
my $name = 'a';
for (@functions) {
    $funcs{$1} = $name++ if m/^function\s+(\w+)/;
}

# modify all the function names
my $funcs = join '|', keys %funcs;
my $func_sub = qr/\b($funcs)\b/;
s|$func_sub|$funcs{$1}|g for @functions;

# modify all the global vars
# as we have split on function keyword these should
# be in the first element of our function array
unless ($functions[0] =~ /^function/) {
    my @globals = $functions[0] =~ m/var\s+(\w+)/g;
    if (@globals) {
        $globals{$_} = $name++ for @globals;
        my $globals = join '|', keys %globals;
        my $global_sub = qr/\b($globals)\b/;
        for my $func (@functions) {
            my @chunks = chunk($func);
            for (@chunks) {
              next if m/^(?:"|')/;     # leave quoted strings alone 
                s|$global_sub|$globals{$1}|g;
            }
            $func = join '', @chunks;
        }
    }
}

# modify all the scoped vars continuing var names on from func/global 
+names
my $end_globals = $name;
for my $func (@functions) {
  next unless $func =~ m/^function/;
    my ( @locals, %locals );
    $name = $end_globals;  # each function can use the same local name
+s
    @locals = $func =~ m/var\s+(\w+)/g;
    my ($local) = $func =~ m/function\s+\w+\s*\(([^\)]+)/;
    if ($local) {
        $local =~ s/\n|\s//g;    
        push @locals, split ',', $local;
    }
    for my $var (@locals) {
      next unless $var;
        $locals{$var} = $name++; 
    }
  next unless keys %locals;
    my $locals = join '|', keys %locals;
    my $local_sub = qr/\b($locals)\b/;
    my @chunks = chunk($func);
    for (@chunks) {
      next if m/^(?:"|')/;     # leave quoted strings alone 
        s|$local_sub|$locals{$1}|g;
    }
    $func = join '', @chunks;
}

# do some initial condensation around curlies
for (@functions) {
    s/\n{/{/gm;
    s/\n}/}/gm;
}

# now every exposed line ending should end in a ; { or } if we are to 
+safely
# condense this down by removing newlines - we add the ; if are missin
+g
for my $func (@functions) {
    my @lines = split "\n", $func;
    for (@lines) {
        $_.= ";" unless m/(?:}|{|;)$/;
    }
    $func = join '', @lines;
    $func .= "\n";
}

# remove whitespace around all operators
my @operators = qw# + - * / = == != < > <= >= ( ) [ ] { } ? ; : #;
push @operators, ','; # need to do it this way to avoid warnings
$_ = quotemeta $_ for @operators;
my $operator_sub = join '|', @operators;
$operator_sub = qr/($operator_sub)/;
for my $func (@functions) {
    my @chunks = chunk($func);
    for (@chunks) {
      next if m/^(?:"|')/;      # leave quoted strings alone   
        s#[ \t]+$operator_sub#$1#g;
        s#$operator_sub[ \t]+#$1#g;
    }
    $func = join '', @chunks;
}    

# ta da time to print out the results
# first display a list of modified fuction names. 
# Note: any function called in the html will have to be modified accor
+dingly!
print "New function names are:\nwas called\t=>\tis now called\n";
print "$_()\t=>\t$funcs{$_}()\n" for keys %funcs;
print "\n";
# print out the modified code
print @functions;
# a few stats just for the hell of it
print "\n\nLength change:\n";
my $is = length join '', @functions;
printf "Originally %d bytes now %d bytes or %2d%% of original size\n",
+ $was, $is, ($is/$was)*100;
exit;

# this sub splits a function into quoted and unquoted chunks
sub chunk {
    my $func = shift;
    my @chunks;
    my $chunk = 0;
    my $found_quote = '';
    for (split //, $func) {
        # look for opening quote
        if (/'|"/ and ! $found_quote) {
            $found_quote = $_;
            $chunk++;
            $chunks[$chunk] = $_;
          next;
        }
        # look for coresponding closing quote
        if ( $found_quote and /$found_quote/ ) {
            $found_quote = '';
            $chunks[$chunk] .= $_;
            $chunk++;
          next;
        }
        # no quotes so just add to current chunk
        $chunks[$chunk] .= $_;
    }
    # strip whitespace from unquoted chunks;
    for (@chunks) {
      next if m/^(?:"|')/;      # leave quoted strings alone
        s/^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$//g;
    }
  return @chunks;
}

=head1 NAME

javastrip.pl - a Perl script to obfuscate and condense javascript code

Varsion 0.0000001

=head1 SYNOPSIS

  javastrip.pl <file>

  where file is the raw javascript only, not HTML
  output is to STDOUT so send it wherever you want with a  > redirect:

  javastrip.pl infile.js > outfile.js

  make a backup of original file first. keep backup. process is irreve
+rsible.

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This script is primarily designed to munge .js files. It will procees 
+any 
pure javascript but was not designed to process javascript embedded in
+ 
HTML.

It processes a javascript in several stages. The first stage is to rem
+ove 
all comments, blank lines and leading/trailing whitespace. This is a f
+airly 
safe thing to do and should not break scripts.

The next stage is rather more dangerous. All the fuctions are renamed.
+ The 
first function found will be renamed a() the next b() and so on. All g
+lobal 
vars are similarly renamed to single (if not all used up) letter names
+ that 
follow in sequence from the function names. Finally all local function
+ vars 
are renamed starting with the letter immediately after the last global
+.

The net result is that all the functions and variables will now have 1
+-2 
letter meaningless names. There is plenty of scope for disaster here b
+ut I 
do not have enough javascript on hand to detect any. The algorithm wor
+ks OK 
on my style of javascripting.

The final stage is to condense the script down. Each function is writt
+en to 
a single line. All excess whitespace around operators is stripped out.
+ This 
is a fairly safe stage too. Literal newlines in strings will be stripp
+ed if 
you are using them. "\n" is just fine.

If it breaks a script you can comment out different sections to see wh
+ich 
process is to blame.

=head2 BUGS

Bound to be. This script was knocked up over a couple of hours and has
+ had 
minimal testing. The algorithm works OK on my style of javascripting b
+ut my 
javascript looks a lot like Perl. Email me any scripts that break when
+ you 
javastrip them and I'll see if I can patch it.

=head1 AUTHOR

tachyon aka Dr James Freeman E<lt>jfreeman@tassie.net.auE<gt>

=head1 LICENSE

This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify i
+t under 
the terms of the "GNU General Public License".

=head1 DISCLAIMER

This script is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

See the "GNU General Public License" for more details.

=cut
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cheers

tachyon

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