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by nonameiguess 1555 days ago
How about none? Any service that can be passed text from an http request can be passed text via argv and called from the command line. The fact that a helper program runs on the same host rather than across a network doesn't mean you can only use it via direct function call. Imagine if the developers of pandoc didn't actually distribute pandoc and only allowed you to invoke a pandoc instance running on their servers remotely.