Ichabod is a server process which accepts POSTed HTML and can rasterize (eg. render images) and evaluate JS in that HTML document. There is a focus on rendering speed.

It utilizes webkit from Qt to render HTML and evaluate JavaScript, and mongoose to parse incoming requests and return responses.

• Fast rasterization of HTML.
• JSON API
• Javascript interface for rasterization functions
• Animated output using giflib.
• High quality animated output using mediancut and other diffusion methods.
• Python bindings available
• X11 not required.
• statsd support built in.

Several excellent headless projects have previously blazed a trail:

• PhantomJS scriptable headless webkit.
• Wkhtmltopdf render HTML into PDF

Ichabod is free software/open source, and is distributed under the MIT.

Ichabod was created, and is maintained, by:

• Dave Berton
• Eric Heydenberk

Thanks to support from:

• Monetate