Text Processing

Whitespace Normalizer

Replace consecutive spaces/tabs with single space and trim line start/end whitespace

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Quick start

Call this tool from your code in three languages.

cURL

curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/whitespace-normalizer' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"textInput":"Enter text to normalize...","normalizeSpaces":true,"normalizeTabs":true,"trimLines":true,"preserveLineBreaks":true}'

API reference

Send a POST request with your inputs as JSON. File parameters require a separate upload first.

Endpoint

HTTP

POST https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/whitespace-normalizer

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
textInput	textarea	Yes	—
normalizeSpaces	checkbox	No	Replace consecutive spaces with a single space
normalizeTabs	checkbox	No	Replace tab characters with spaces
trimLines	checkbox	No	Remove whitespace from the beginning and end of each line
preserveLineBreaks	checkbox	No

MCP integration

Add this tool to your Model Context Protocol server so AI agents can list and call it.

Server configuration

Add this block to your MCP client configuration:

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elysiatools-whitespace-normalizer": {
      "name": "whitespace-normalizer",
      "description": "Replace consecutive spaces/tabs with single space and trim line start/end whitespace",
      "baseUrl": "https://api.elysiatools.com/mcp/sse?toolId=whitespace-normalizer",
      "command": "",
      "args": [],
      "env": {},
      "isActive": true,
      "type": "sse"
    }
  }
}

List available tools

After connecting to the SSE endpoint, list the exposed tools:

tools/list

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/list"
}

Call this tool

Invoke the tool by its id, passing arguments built from its parameters:

tools/call

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 2,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "whitespace-normalizer",
    "arguments": {
  "textInput": "Enter text to normalize...",
  "normalizeSpaces": true,
  "normalizeTabs": true,
  "trimLines": true,
  "preserveLineBreaks": true
}
  }
}

Chain multiple tools in one session with a comma-separated toolId list, e.g. /mcp/sse?toolId=png-to-webp,jpg-to-webp,gif-to-webp (max 20).

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