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webloop

WebLoop: Scriptable, headless WebKit with a Go API. Like PhantomJS, but for Go.

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

WebLoop: Scriptable, headless WebKit with a Go API. Like PhantomJS, but for Go.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 6:01:08 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-10-31 03:10:37 UTC to 2014-07-07 09:25:25 UTC.

01232013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 20132013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 20142014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 2014

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Oct 20132013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Nov 20132013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC321
Dec 20132013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20142014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Mar 20142014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20142014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20142014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20142014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20142014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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sqs·Oct 31, 2013
I built go-webkit2 to make it easy to run a headless WebKit on a Web server to serve static HTML pages (generated from an AngularJS app) to search engines and other clients without JavaScript support. Right now it supports the most common operations and works well for headless browsing and GTK+ widget embedding. I will be implementing the rest of the WebKitGTK+ v2 API in the coming weeks. go-webkit2 also hooks into https://github.com/crazy2be/gojs to enable execution of JavaScript in the context of the browser window. The README at https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/go-webkit2/re... has an example of this. I have a full project demonstrating the usage of go-webkit2 to run a headless browser and expose operations in a more friendly, Go-idiomatic API: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/webloop/readm.... It's called W
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ebLoop and is like PhantomJS for Go. It's not ready for release, but if you are playing around with go-webkit2, it might be helpful. Thanks to https://github.com/crazy2be for CRing my gojs patches and the Conformal folks for making https://github.com/conformal/gotk3.
In Go-webkit2: WebKit bindings for Go (w/headless support & JavaScript evaluation)

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