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This looks really useful for documentation. The text-based approach seems like a huge advantage over screen recordings. Being able to copy-paste commands from a "video" is brilliant. The privacy concern about auto-uploading is a bit concerning though, glad they added the prompt to choose local vs upload.
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Something that lets one turn a terminal recording into a document showing how to redo that thing without having to watch a video and no need to copy/paste between terminal and text editor, take screenshots and such.
Maybe this could be achieved by recording in a human readable file format and then running it via an LLM with right prompt.
Then I'd like it to record all the time.
I always have a bunch of tmux sessions running. I've set it up to save the history of all sessions, but obviously the history is one file. Something like this could resolve it nicely.
This is a really nice, and very compact, way of demonstrating the terminal in action. I used it to show off my 2002 version of ASCII pacman game, since no one's going to bother compiling it, and it'll eventually end up with bitrot. You can see me playing it (really badly!) at https://asciinema.org/a/723703
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Looks cool, but produce GIFs? Asciinema is text based IIRC. The name is the downside of Asciinema IMO. Can’t help but read it as ASCII enema, which is funny, but not what I want think about. Just call it tty-player or something…
vhs can also create video files: https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs#output
I am curious about the use cases where a VIDEO recording is inherently more useful than a TEXT recording of a terminal session. I have found simply using: script session.log ... to be invaluable, especially when documenting commands that will be finding their way into a bash script or when I am collaborating with another person who will always have script available in their terminal but may have restrictions on being…
I like the idea. I haven't used the tool, but what I'd love to (maybe it already does this) is to be able to take a recording and turn it into a text document showing what to run, what output to expect and so on. Something that lets one turn a terminal recording into a document showing how to redo that thing without having to watch a video and no need to copy/paste between terminal and text editor, take screenshots a…
If you uploaded to asciinema server (e.g. asciinema.org) then you can click on Download and select txt format.
Or, with the CLI 3.0, you can either:
- convert existing cast file to plain text: asciinema convert demo.cast demo.txt
- record directly to plain text: asciinema rec demo.txt
The upload "feature" is very dangerous.
This looks really useful for documentation. The text-based approach seems like a huge advantage over screen recordings. Being able to copy-paste commands from a "video" is brilliant. The privacy concern about auto-uploading is a bit concerning though, glad they added the prompt to choose local vs upload.
I’ve moved over to using vhs https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs