VQvqtska·Jun 15, 2026
I used a different project, https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli
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marionebl / svg-term-cli
svg-term-cli
Share terminal sessions via SVG and CSS
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Share terminal sessions via SVG and CSS
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I love this tool. For people who want to render asciicast to SVG, I can highly recommend svg-term-cli[1]. [1] https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli/
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20 sourcesI'm a big fan of svg-term myself: https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli
In Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux systemQuality animated SVGs is even better:
https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli
In Asciinema: Record and share your terminal sessionssvg-term-cli I think. I found a post talking about it not long ago.
https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli
In Asciinema: Record and share your terminal sessionsThis is nice until you realize `svg-term-cli` appears to be abandoned
https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli/commits/master/
Last commit ~6 years ago. Does not appear to be any viable forks either.
Fortunately, I use nix to manage my system which sort of forces me to inspect the maintenance history of projects. Better than blindly installing `npm` packages in global namespace.
asciinema on the other hand is very interesting. Seems I can do without the svg aspect here, but something to keep in mind (svg animations).
In SVGs that feel like GIFsSVG-Term-CLI: Share Terminal Sessions via SVG and CSS
2 points · Open discussionWorth 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
In Asciinema: Record and share your terminal sessions, the simple wayTry https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli for asciinema -> moving svg
In A terminal case of LinuxMan - this is my fkn brand.
Plain text is almost a universal truth -- and it's easy to church up your documentation with a well presented ASCII chart.
Some ANSI Color Codes and ASCIInema can carry you a long way.
Here's a list of plain text information tools from my notes:
https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/asciigrid/
https://gitlab.com/mbarkhau/asciigrid/
ascii-tables is exactly what is says on the label.
https://ozh.github.io/ascii-tables/
https://github.com/ozh/ascii-tables/
https://www.netpen.io/main/
https://github.com/ebirger/netpen/
svgbob and svg-term are both great for creating SVGs out of these plain text files:
https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli/
https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor/
https://github.com/ivanceras/svgbob/
Here are some TUI/CLI focused frameworks. These are over kill for me - but maybe
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useful to someone here:
https://www.textualize.io/
https://charm.sh/
http://maaslalani.com/slides/
https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/
TUI/Text-Based presentaion tools:
https://sli.dev/
https://github.com/slidevjs/slidev/
https://github.com/maaslalani/slides/
http://maaslalani.com/slides/
https://github.com/d0c-s4vage/lookatme/
https://github.com/chunqiuyiyu/ervy/
Honorable Mention goes to wtf-util and it's TUI configurator:
https://wtfutil.com/
https://github.com/ggerganov/wtf-tui
Thanks for coming to my ted talk!
Share terminal sessions as razor-sharp animated SVG everywhere
1 points · Open discussionApparently, you can after rendering the asciicast file to SVG: https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli
In Video Vectorizationasciinema to generate a raw json file, then svg-term to convert it to svg
https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema
https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli
(I ended up moving the SVG assets to GitHub Pages which hopefully fixes the issue others were seeing.)
In Show HN: Xcnotary – a Mac app notarization helper made with RustI love this tool.
For people who want to render asciicast to SVG, I can highly recommend svg-term-cli[1].
[1] https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli/
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