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diff --git a/src/static/api.lua b/src/static/api.lua
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+local gitpad = {} -- gitpad namespace
+
+function gitpad.html_escape(s)
+    return (string.gsub(s, "[\"><'&]", {
+        ["&"] = "&amp;",
+        ["<"] = "&lt;",
+        [">"] = "&gt;",
+        ['"'] = "&quot;",
+        ["'"] = "&#39;",
+    }))
+end
+
+-- TODO: add API to build HTML tags
+
+return gitpad