tiny-kiosk-browser - A very tiny kiosk browser

As it's name implies, tiny-kiosk-browser is a very tiny browser intended for kiosk usage. It's implemented using GTK+ 3.0 and WebKitGTK 2. The feature list of the browser is short, but long enough for many kiosk or digital signage type use cases.

Features

• Display web pages in full screen without borders, loading bars, etc.
• Authenticate using HTTP Basic Authentication.
• Pass HTTP Basic Authentication credentials from the command line.
• Built with modern GTK+ 3.0 and WebKitGTK libraries.
• Runs even on a Raspberry Pi 1B, although rather slowly.

Build time dependencies (on Debian)

The following dependencies are required for building

libgtk-3-dev
libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev

In addition, the build system requires the usual things: cmake and gcc.

How to build

Run the following commands:

cd ../tiny-kiosk-browser
mkdir Build
cd Build/
cmake ..
make

The binary is placed in Build/tiny-kiosk-browser.

Examples

Show a help message.

./tiny-kiosk-browser --help

Load https://example.com.

./tiny-kiosk-browser --username admin --password admin --host example.com https://example.com

Load https://example.com and login using HTTP Basic Authentication.

./tiny-kiosk-browser --username admin --password admin --host example.com https://example.com

License

This software is licensed under the BSD 3-clause license. See LICENSE.txt for more details.