# weolar/miniblink49

a lighter, faster browser kernel of blink to integrate HTML UI in your app. 一个小巧、轻量的浏览器内核，用来取代wke和libcef

Repository: https://github.com/weolar/miniblink49
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/miniblink49
Language: C++
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: chromium, electron, nodejs, blink
Last push: 2026-05-12T19:43:02+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 74/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 82, release rhythm 49, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3627, "days_push": 113, "days_rel": 263, "gap_med": 75, "n_releases_24m": 6}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 7821, forks 1162 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:05.283851+00:00)

## What it is
miniblink is an open-source, single-file, extremely small browser widget based on the Chromium Blink kernel, exposed through a pure C interface so a few lines of code can embed a browser in an application. It is designed as a lightweight replacement for wke and libcef, with an embedded Node.js runtime that can even run Electron apps.

## Use cases
- embed a browser widget in a native desktop app
- build HTML-based UI for a C++ application
- replace libcef with a much smaller browser kernel
- run headless browser for web scraping
- create a lightweight Electron-like runtime
- intercept and replace network resources with local files
- render web pages with cross-domain restrictions disabled

## When to choose
- you need a tiny, single-file Chromium-based browser control in a Windows app
- you want to build app UI in HTML/JS with minimal binary size
- you need headless browsing for crawlers with low resource usage
- you want Electron-like functionality in a ~6MB package

## When to avoid
- you need the latest Chromium features and security patches (this repo tracks the old 49 kernel)
- you target Linux/macOS primarily (the 108 kernel lives in the separate openeuler/liteview project)
- you need a fully supported, multi-platform webview with commercial support
- you require guaranteed reproducible builds from source

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: web-framework, gui, http-client, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, desktop-applications, cross-platform, developer-tools
- platform: windows, cpp
- tags: browser-kernel, chromium, blink, embedded-browser, html-ui, headless, webview, electron-alternative, libcef-alternative, npapi, nodejs, desktop

## Member repositories
- weolar/miniblink49 (main) score 74

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:05.283851+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 2026-08-29T17:34:09.453444+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/weolar/miniblink49 (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:05.283851+00:00, sha 3a2011784b80)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.