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About asciinema
asciinema (formerly ascii.io) is a free and open source solution for recording terminal sessions and sharing them on the web.
It aims to be a "go to" place for every command-line user who wants to share their skills with others. Or putting it differently, it's a place to show off your geekiness.
asciinema project is built of several sub-projects:
- command-line based terminal session recorder,
asciinema(source code) - asciinema.org - a website with an API (source code)
- javascript player (source code)
If technical details interest you then read more about how it works.
Contributing
Help the project by contributing money or time.
A bit of history
asciinema project was started by Marcin Kulik (@sickill) in the beginning of 2011 as ascii.io. He was playing with the idea of sharing terminal session recordings on the web since 2010 but the working prototype came to life a bit later. asciinema.org site had a first public release in March 2012 (as ascii.io then). The project was renamed to "asciinema" in September 2013.
asciinema is actively developed with the help of great open source contributors.
Reporting bugs
As the service is built of several parts there are separate bug trackers:
- github.com/asciinema/asciinema/issues - for recorder issues and ideas
- github.com/asciinema/asciinema.org/issues - for website/embedding issues and ideas
- github.com/asciinema/asciinema-player/issues - for player issues and ideas
Please only use them for reporting bugs and submitting feature requests. Do not ask for general help there. Use IRC or the support email for that.
Credits
Thanks to the following companies and individuals for providing services and resources:
- Brightbox - cloud servers
- Reza Ali - homepage background
- Bugsnag - error monitoring