fathyb/carbonyl
Chromium running inside your terminal
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
The project lists 11 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #46 in the weekly ranking the week of Apr 26, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Runs a full Chromium-based web browser entirely within a terminal environment without requiring a window server.
- Delivers fast, native terminal rendering with low CPU usage and supports modern web standards including WebGL and video playback.
- Use for browsing modern websites securely over SSH or in safe-mode consoles without graphical environments.
- Use for automated web content rendering or testing in headless terminal setups where GUI browsers are unavailable.
- Use for developers needing a lightweight, fast terminal browser that supports JavaScript and multimedia for remote or resource-limited systems.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
BSD 3-Clause
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
Watch-outs
- Warning: No commits in over a year (last push Jul 2024).
General guidance from repository metadata, not legal advice. How we score
From the README
Carbonyl is a Chromium based browser built to run in a terminal. Read the blog post.
It supports pretty much all Web APIs including WebGL, WebGPU, audio and video playback, animations, etc..
It's snappy, starts in less than a second, runs at 60 FPS, and idles at 0% CPU usage. It does not require a window server (i.e. works in a safe-mode console), and even runs through SSH.
Carbonyl originally started as
html2svgand is now the runtime behind it.Carbonyl on Linux without Docker requires the same dependencies as Chromium.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
599+24
Open issues
91+2
Compared with peers in CLI
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| morluto/rea | 450.0K | +22.9K | 75 | 16 days ago |
| mattpocock/skills | 320.9K | +9.5K | 75 | 12 days ago |
| vercel-labs/agent-desktop | 21.4K | +8.7K | 75 | 5 days ago |
| stablyai/orca | 121.4K | +6.7K | 75 | today |
| vercel-labs/agent-browser | 49.2K | +3.8K | 75 | 1 day ago |
| fathyb/carbonyl | 19.6K | — | 12 | — |
| Category median | 121.4K | +8.7K | 75 | — |
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