# RobotWebTools/rosbridge_suite

Server Implementations of the rosbridge v2 Protocol

Repository: https://github.com/RobotWebTools/rosbridge_suite
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rosbridge_suite
Homepage: https://robotwebtools.github.io
Language: Python
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-17T16:38:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 76/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5069, "days_push": 16, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1237, forks 591 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:05.288305+00:00)

## What it is
rosbridge_suite is a set of ROS packages implementing the rosbridge v2 protocol, which exposes ROS topics, services, and parameters through a JSON API over transports like WebSockets and TCP. It lets non-ROS clients such as web browsers, Java, Python, or Rust programs control and monitor a robot without native ROS dependencies.

## Use cases
- control a ROS robot from a web browser
- subscribe to ROS topics from JavaScript over WebSockets
- call ROS services from a Python client without ROS installed
- build a web-based robot dashboard
- expose ROS API to external applications via JSON
- remotely monitor robot topics over TCP

## When to choose
- you need web or non-ROS clients to talk to a ROS system
- you want a language-agnostic JSON bridge to ROS topics and services
- you are building browser-based robot visualization or control tools with roslibjs

## When to avoid
- you need native, high-throughput ROS communication with no serialization overhead
- your clients already run inside ROS and can use rclpy/rclcpp directly
- you need real-time or hard-latency guarantees over the JSON bridge

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: websocket, http-server, serialization, json, middleware
- domain: robotics, apis, web-development
- platform: python, self-hosted
- tags: ros, rosbridge, robot-web-tools, json-api, websocket-server, ros2, robotics-middleware, automation, linux, websocket

## Member repositories
- RobotWebTools/rosbridge_suite (main) score 76

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:05.288305+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 2026-08-30T08:21:50.457481+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/RobotWebTools/rosbridge_suite (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:05.288305+00:00, sha c83fa94311d8)
  - homepage: https://robotwebtools.github.io (fetched 2026-08-29T12:21:14.049255+00:00, sha 5f3842d14a8e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.