asciinema Reviews and Details

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• Create videos for your products using your terminal/IDE

  There are already ton of solutions to this, like https://asciinema.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 days ago

• Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a binary for offline viewing

  Have you heard the good news about the terminal savior asciinema -- https://asciinema.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Glyph v0.2: the release is the joinery

  The fix in v0.2 has two halves: the .gitignore rule for visuals/out/ is gone, and a new visuals/render-cast.sh pipeline renders the gallery using asciinema plus agg. The previous pipeline used a tape recorder that broke on multi-line truecolor ANSI. The new one runs the same Bubble Tea story binaries under a glyph_snap build tag, captures the asciinema cast, and renders to GIF without headless Chrome. The pipeline... - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• castkit: CLI Demo Videos From One Command

  The existing options all have real tradeoffs. Asciinema is free and captures terminal output, but the playback looks like a terminal log - no visual polish, no branding, nothing you'd put on a landing page. Screen Studio costs $89 and produces beautiful results, but you're still recording manually. VHS from Charm is the closest thing to what I wanted - declarative, scriptable - but you have to write a .tape file... - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

• Show HN: Termstage – Animated terminal SVGs from YAML, no screen recording

  > I was tired of screen-recording CLI demos What was wrong with https://asciinema.org/ ? - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Show HN: Pipelock – All-in-one security harness for AI coding agents

  > created: 1 day ago https://asciinema.org/~user%3A281302. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)

  Sounds kind of like https://asciinema.org/ (which I've never used, but it seems cool). - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Building with LLMs at Scale: Part 2 - Ergonomics and Observability

  The solution: record everything. I use asciinema, a terminal session recorder, to capture complete LLM sessions. Unlike text logs (which just save the text), asciinema records the actual terminal output with timing information—think of it like a video recording of your terminal session. You can replay sessions later and see exactly what appeared on screen, when it appeared, and in what order. - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago

• Show HN: DataRamen, a Fast SQL Explorer with Automatic Joins and Data Navigation

  Check out asciinema for easy creation of CLUI demos. https://asciinema.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Helix Editor Release 25.07 Highlights

  They're actually not videos! They're using asciinema: https://asciinema.org/, which is rendering actual text in the webpage - try selecting some while the recording is playing. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Can you give tips on writing a README for project?

  I usually write the README and documentation before writing the code. I then shop it around and ask people if it makes sense. The initial version of the code is stubs that, if you follow the code examples given in the documentation, return hard-coded values. I went to the extreme of giving the docs to non-developers who've never written a single line of code in their entire life, giving them an interpreter, and... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• OpenAI Codex

  Not as much as https://asciinema.org/ - when you can use that... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

  Cool site, have you considered using asciicinema instead of screenshots? Seems like the perfect tool for what you're trying to do https://asciinema.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• File Explorer is merged to Helix editor

  I agree. Capturing the interaction as a movie (like .mov file) makes it really difficult to understand what the user is doing. e.g. What keystrokes did the user press to finish this interaction. I wish folks would post screen grabs with tools like https://asciinema.org/ - this is what the helix-editor homepage uses to show the features. This is ideal for terminal apps. That said, I wish asciinema can also show the... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Show HN: I'm tired of sharing code using PasteBin and Slack, so I made this

  Https://asciinema.org/ It can be self hosted if you want. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• My Experience Working on the KWOK Project as an LFX Mentee

  How to generate an image from a bash script: A tool called Asciiema allows developers to test their bash script in action while also recording the execution from their terminal. This is helpful because it validates that your script works. There were times when I assumed my documentation was accurate, however, when I tried the instructions using the tool, it failed. Thankfully, I got it fixed. - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago

• Asciinema vs Savvy CLI: Terminal recording tools

  Savvy CLI and Asciinema are both powerful tools that can record terminal activity, but they serve different purposes and are built with different core functionalities. - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago

• Show HN: NetSour, CLI Based Wireshark

  I mention asciinema in my other comment[0], but there are a number of tools. The one to use depends on your system and the archwiki has a good list[1]. Assuming you're not using Wayland, ffmpeg is probably going to work[2]. Gimp and ImageMagick also provide tools to help. [0] https://asciinema.org/ | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41010530 [2] https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Capture/Desktop. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Show HN: NetSour, CLI Based Wireshark

  You're not alone. Even worse when it is a product page. Just how often I see soe product or project and are unable to actually determine what the thing does or why I would want to use it or even HOW to use it. I can give GitHub projects a pass when someone else links them, but the poster is the author so no pass. This is "Show HN". Please __show__. I do like to try out new projects and tools, but where's the hook?... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Why my post labled FLAGGED and how to prevent it?

  I think it would be more reasonable to judge whether it is promotion according to its content, quality, purpose, instead of domain name. I totally agree one should get flagged if one posts the same product or application for the same use case again and again. But in my situation, they are different tools for different use cases. I don't think this demo would get flagged if it was uploaded and presented in the... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Show HN: Play Doom in Zork

  There are other fun "terminal capture tools" like https://asciinema.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago