ttygif

A full featured text to gif conversion utility, that just works. It's in beta, so expect rough edges.

ttygif in action

Whats the hell is this?

• It's sparkling fantastic colorfull terminal output AUTOMATION!

how do i get it!?

## requirements gcc, python development libs, cython
pip3 install ttygif --user

What are the benifits

• pipe output into beautifuly themed gifs
• asciicast to gif
• perfect fit for CI/CD
• it runs headless
• it can be scripted
• works with python 2 and 3
• works on linux, mac, raspberry PI
• its fast, and easy to install
• it has themes
• you can make custom themes!
• you can add background images from the CLI

It's portable

ttygif is self contained with no dependencys other than python/cython. GIF encoding and termal emulation are both implimented with internal cython code. No system fonts are required. All you need to get ttygif to work is a c compiler, python and its development libs. ttygif is a cython project.

shipped themes

• default (256 color xterm palette)
• default-4bit (16 colorxterm palette)
• default-2bit (monochrome palette)
• windows7 (windows style wrapped terminal)
• game (8 bit inspired frame)
• mac (mac styled window)
• fwdm (old linux style window)
• scripted (bottom bar with text)
• opensouirce (bottom bar with text)
• bar (bottom bar with NO text)

Supported fonts

• All fonts came from https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts
• copyright FON conversion © 2015 VileR, license: CC BY-SA 4.0
• ttygif supports the "fd" font format. Basicly text files.
• All .FON files have been exported to fd files for portability.
• All fonts are copyright of their perspective owners, not me.
• default font=Verite_9x16

Check them all out here -> fonts.md

ttygif-assets

The following resources are located in the ttygif-assets repo

Examples

some random pics from the asciinema.org website, and my computer

pipe

Terminal ray tracing

term-tris dt cannon

• with game theme

Denariusd compile on 30 cores!

surpirsed Pikachu

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