Asciinema

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Terminal recording tool

Record and share your terminal sessions, the simple way.

Forget screen recording apps and blurry video. Experience a lightweight, text-based approach to terminal recording.

See also

• SVG
• asciinema
• svg-term-cli
• bespoken

Favorite site

• Record and share your terminal sessions, the simple way - asciinema.org

Guides

• SVGs that feel like GIFs | GeekNews
  • [Original] SVGs that feel like GIFs | Vincent D. Warmerdam
  • Animated SVG images keep high resolution while having a very small file size (49KB)
  • Gives a visual effect similar to traditional GIFs, but actually uses SVG animation features
  • Can also be used directly in Github README.md files
  • Terminal sessions can be recorded and converted to SVG animations using the asciinema and svg-term-cli tools
  • Uses SVG animation elements (<animate>, <animateTransform>, <animateMotion>)
• asciinema CLI 3.0 rewritten in Rust, with live streaming and file format upgr | GeekNews ... upgrades provided