# ikey4u/zebkit

> 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.

- Magnitude: 6.7 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 187 total · +15 stars measured 2026-11-10, 00:26–06:03 UTC, ≈ 129 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: C++ · License: LGPL-2.1 · Created: 2026-10-10 · Last push: 2026-11-10
- GitHub: https://github.com/ikey4u/zebkit · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/ikey4u/zebkit

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 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).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 4
- Issues and pull requests: 2
- Watchers: 1
- Average over the last week: 45 per day
- Usual pace: 0 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 3
- Latest release: v0.4.0 (2026-11-09)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-12 … 2026-11-10: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 188, 15

## Magnitude by day, last 2 days

11-09 6.0, 11-10 6.7

## Hacker News

- Zebkit – Chromium as an embeddable library — 112 points, 44 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50426207

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-10 06:13 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.