Spider

Install web apps with ease

Special thanks to oiimrosabel for the icon!

Features ✨

• Sandboxed: Each app has an entirely separate instance of the WebKit browser
• Adaptive window styling: Each app's titlebar adapts to it's theme color
• High quality favicons: Scrapes websites for a high quality favicon to use
• Custom user agents: Lets you set the app's user agent if a website isn't behaving

Planned ✔️

• Website permissions
• Get website data via webview
• Option to autostart and run apps in background
• Domain restriction
• More keybinds in web app
• HTTP Proxy settings
• Handle pop ups

✨ Please let me know if you'd like any more features! ✨

DO NOT BE AFRIAD TO SUBMIT BUGS! I know there is lots of web functionality that you might be missing

Building 🛠️

GNOME Builder 🏗️

This project is easily buildable with GNOME Builder.

Meson 🖥️

To setup meson, run

meson setup target -Dbuildtype=debug --prefix="$HOME/.local"

Then to compile, run

ninja install -C target/

Thanks to these awesome people and projects! ❤️

• oiimrosabel (the awesome icon!)
• jbenner-radham/rust-gtk4-css-styling (per-theme custom css)
• gtk-rs/gtk4-rs (obviously lol)
• eyekay/webapps (the idea)
• bilelmoussaoui/ashpd (the library and the quality examples)