go-webkit2 provides Go bindings for the WebKitGTK+ 2 API. It permits headless operation of WebKit as well as embedding a WebView in a GTK+ application.

• Documentation on Sourcegraph

• Go >= 1.2rc1 (due to #3250)
• GTK+ 3.10+
• WebKitGTK+ >= 2.0.0

You can specify Go build tags to omit bindings in gotk3 for later versions of GTK (e.g., go build -tags gtk_3_10).

sudo apt-get install libwebkit2gtk-3.0-dev

Pass -tags gtk_3_10 to the go tool if you have GTK 3.10 installed.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libwebkit2gtk-3.0-dev

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libwebkit2gtk-3.0-dev

sudo pacman -S webkitgtk

Make sure you install WebKitGTK+ 2, not version 1. After installation, you should have an include file that satisfies #include <webkit2/webkit2.h>.

package webkit2_test

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/visionect/gotk3/glib"
	"github.com/visionect/gotk3/gtk"
	"github.com/visionect/go-webkit2/webkit2"
	"github.com/sqs/gojs"
	"runtime"
)

func Example() {
	runtime.LockOSThread()
	gtk.Init(nil)

	webView := webkit2.NewWebView()
	defer webView.Destroy()

	webView.Connect("load-failed", func() {
		fmt.Println("Load failed.")
	})
	webView.Connect("load-changed", func(_ *glib.Object, event int) {
		loadEvent := webkit2.LoadEvent(event)
		switch loadEvent {
		case webkit2.LoadFinished:
			fmt.Println("Load finished.")
			fmt.Printf("Title: %q\n", webView.Title())
			fmt.Printf("URI: %s\n", webView.URI())
			webView.RunJavaScript("window.location.hostname", func(val *gojs.Value, err error) {
				if err != nil {
					fmt.Println("JavaScript error.")
				} else {
					fmt.Printf("Hostname (from JavaScript): %q\n", val)
				}
				gtk.MainQuit()
			})
		}
	})

	glib.IdleAdd(func() bool {
		webView.LoadURI("https://www.google.com/")
		return false
	})

	gtk.Main()

	// output:
	// Load finished.
	// Title: "Google"
	// URI: https://www.google.com/
	// Hostname (from JavaScript): "www.google.com"
}

See the documentation and the test files for usage information and examples.

For more information about the underlying WebKitGTK+ 2 API, refer to the WebKit2 docs.

The included webkit-eval-js program runs the contents of a JavaScript file in the context of a web page. Run with:

$ go get -tags gtk_3_10 github.com/sourcegraph/go-webkit2/webkit-eval-js
$ webkit-eval-js https://example.com scriptfile.js

For example:

$ echo document.title | webkit-eval-js https://google.com /dev/stdin
"Google"

The following projects use go-webkit2:

• WebLoop - headless WebKit with a Go API

See go-webkit2 users for a full list of repositories and people using go-webkit2.

go test ./webkit2

Note: The tests require an X display. If you are not running in a graphical environment, you can use Xvfb:

Xvfb :1 &
export DISPLAY=:1
go test ./webkit2

• Implement more of the WebKitGTK+ 2 API. Right now, only certain parts of it are implemented.
• Set up CI testing. This is difficult because all of the popular CI services run older versions of Ubuntu that make it difficult to install WebKitGTK+ >= 2.0.0.
• Create example applications.
• Fix memory leaks where C strings are allocated and not freed.

See the AUTHORS file for a list of contributors.

Submit contributions via GitHub pull request. Patches should include tests and should pass golint.