# beakerbrowser/beaker

An experimental peer-to-peer Web browser

Repository: https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/beaker
Homepage: https://beakerbrowser.com/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: browser, web, decentralized, p2p, beaker, electron, hypercore, hyperspace, hyperdrive
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-12-27T21:47:18+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3752, "days_push": 1345, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6744, forks 545 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:48.259383+00:00)

## What it is
Beaker Browser was an experimental peer-to-peer web browser built on Electron that added APIs for hosting 'hostless' applications using the Hypercore/Hyperdrive protocols while remaining compatible with the regular web. The project has been officially archived and is no longer maintained.

## Use cases
- browse and publish peer-to-peer websites over the dat/hyperdrive protocol
- build serverless hostless web applications
- experiment with decentralized web APIs in a browser
- self-host websites directly from a desktop browser
- explore p2p web archiving with hypercore

## When to choose
- you need to view or archive legacy dat:// or hyper:// content
- you want to study how a p2p browser was implemented
- you are forking or building on the archived codebase

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained, secure browser for daily use
- you expect bug fixes or protocol updates
- you need production-grade p2p web hosting today

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: browser-extension, p2p, web-scraping
- domain: web-development, privacy, censorship-circumvention, browser-extensions
- platform: windows, cross-platform
- tags: peer-to-peer-web, hyperdrive, hypercore, dat-protocol, decentralized-web, electron-app, archived-project, linux, macos, electron, desktop

## Member repositories
- beakerbrowser/beaker (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:48.259383+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:42:36.046768+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:48.259383+00:00, sha 0319f7ed744c)
  - homepage: https://beakerbrowser.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:39:01.455853+00:00, sha 7765c453c572)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.