Q1: is there a way to download the resulting screencast so that it can be viewed off the network?
Q2: is there a way to do this without having to upload anything? e.g. pipe to a file locally?
Text-based terminal screencasts
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#12What happens if I run something like htop?
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#14Source code of showterm: client[1], server[2]
[1] https://github.com/ConradIrwin/showterm [2] https://github.com/ConradIrwin/showterm.io
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#15Q1: is there a way to download the resulting screencast so that it can be viewed off the network? Q2: is there a way to do this without having to upload anything? e.g. pipe to a file locally?
try script(1) and scriptreplay(1)
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#16This is such an incredible idea. I can already see tons of use cases for it. CLI apps can easily demo themselves through this. It even recognizes backspaces!
I'm using a patched font with a git branch symbol in my prompt[0]. As expected, it only displays on devices that have that font installed. Colors don't match my actual terminal either, but that's just a minor problem.
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#17Gate One has had this feature for ages. You can export your terminal logs to HTML payback files or as traditional flat logs. You can then share them however you like... Web, email, whatever.
It works with full screen apps like tmux, vim, htop, etc. It even plays back images (if the user output them to the terminal).
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#18I agreed with the people saying that a confirmation before uploading would be helpful, so I went to file an issue.
It turns out there is one there already. You can weigh in here: https://github.com/ConradIrwin/showterm/issues/12.
EDIT: A follow up: It turns out that there is a slightly hidden and indirect way to abort uploads. Start the program as `showterm -e`, and it will offer you a chance to edit timings before uploading. (This is intended to give you a chance to trim out long pauses.) At that point, if you can cause your editor to abort with a non-zero status, the upload aborts. For Vim users, the gem's author points to exiting with `:cq`.
See here: https://github.com/ConradIrwin/showterm/blob/master/bin/show...
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#19I think the script should ask for a confirmation before uploading stuff. Somebody could get distracted and forget that script runs.
agreed. This is a dangerous utility akin to a key logger.
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#20I'm doing some tests [1] with showterm's screencasts embedded in a web page and, argh, apparently you can't control the autorun feature, pretty annoying.
I think that if it had a set of "play"/"pause"/"rewind"/"forward" buttons, tons of websites would benefit (for docs, examples, tutorials, etc).
[1] https://googledrive.com/host/0B9lMEsFXwv0ZLVh5dkRfdmw1UnM/