ikey4u/zebkit
- Total stars
- 187
- Today
- +15since 00:26 UTC
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About the project
A slim cross-platform browser engine library for desktop applications: Chromium's Blink, V8, PDFium and FFmpeg bundled into one linkable engine without Chrome or Electron, with C, Rust, Python and JavaScript bindings.
Useful for
- Embed a web view into an existing native application's own window and event loop
- Render, search and edit PDFs in an app via the built-in PDFium API
- Automate the engine with Playwright's API or drive it from agents over MCP
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Star growth looks organic. Data as of November 10, 2026, 06:13 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-10 (UTC), 00:26–06:03: 172 → 187 stars (+15). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +129 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 0 per day.
- The repository is 31 days old and already has 187 stars.
- Hacker News: “Zebkit – Chromium as an embeddable library” — 112 points, 15 h ago.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @mbrukman (401 followers), @millette (311 followers).
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
New stars over 7 days: 188.
Daily measurements · UTC
- November 3, 2026
- 0
- November 4, 2026
- 0
- November 5, 2026
- 0
- November 6, 2026
- 0
- November 7, 2026
- 0
- November 8, 2026
- 0
- November 9, 2026
- 188
Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 188 · November 9, 2026. Days with data: 30.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: November 10, 2026, 06:12 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
Three GitHub discoveries in each edition
What they do, why they are gaining interest, and what to check before using them.
Editions at 10:00, 16:00, 22:00 MSK.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 187
- Today
- +15 stars measured 2026-11-10, 00:26–06:03 UTC, ≈ 129 by evening
- Forks
- 4
- Issues and pull requests
- 2
- Watchers
- 1
- Language
- C++
- License
- LGPL-2.1
- Latest release
- v0.4.0 · November 9, 2026
- Created
- October 10, 2026
- Last push
- November 10, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- Zebkit – Chromium as an embeddable library112 points, November 9, 2026
Spotted in
- November 10, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
- November 9, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
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