agg

All of the terminal effects I display over at: https://chrisbuilds.github.io/terminaltexteffects/showroom/ were recorded using asciinema and converted to gif use AGG. https://github.com/asciinema/agg The workflow only takes a few seconds. The .cast file is output to a folder, AGG reads the .cast and creates a gif. AGG has arguments to automatically set the row/column widths and strip inactive time. I could not find any other solution that produced high quality gifs. Asciinema is awesome.

Worth noting you can convert asciinema to gifs (or svgs): agg - asciinema gif generator https://github.com/asciinema/agg svg-term-cli https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli

I wrote a blog post[1] breaking down tools to record terminal sessions just a couple weeks ago. I wasn't aware of this particular one but it looks like it's going to have issues with recording anything that requires user input. My post describes how to make high quality recordings of terminal sessions that can be replayed in the terminal, or shared on the web. I'm defining high quality as recordings with zero typos, and relatively controlled timing between commands. I'm going to assume this works well because all the stuff from Charm seems to, BUT its limitations are ... problematic. I think the techniques i list in the post combined with agg[2] or gifcast[3] to covert it to a gif would be a better solution for non-trivial cases. I'll add notes about agg and gifcast to the post this evening hopefully. [1]: https://weblog.masukomi.org/202

> It does not generate a GIF file,... Although it's separate, the creator(s) does provide a utility called `agg`[0] to convert asciicast files to GIF. The GitHub appears to provide prebuilt binaries in Releases, but it's easily built using Cargo/Rust too. 0: https://github.com/asciinema/agg