Asciinema // Record and share your terminal sessions

Forget screen recording apps and blurry video. Enjoy a lightweight, purely text-based approach to terminal recording. 

asciinema [as-kee-nuh-muh] is a free and open source solution for recording terminal sessions and sharing them on the web. 

How it works:

asciinema project is built of several complementary pieces:

• command-line based terminal session recorder, asciinema,
• website with an API at asciinema.org,
• javascript player

When you run asciinema rec in your terminal the recording starts, capturing all output that is being printed to your terminal while you’re issuing the shell commands. When the recording finishes (by hitting Ctrl-D or typing exit) then the captured output is uploaded to asciinema.org website and prepared for playback on the web.

Installation:

There are several ways to get asciinema recorder:

• Installing via Pip
• Installing on Linux
• Installing on macOS
• Installing on FreeBSD
• Installing on OpenBSD
• Running in Docker container
• Running from source

If you use other operating system and you can build a native package for it then don’t hesitate, do it and let us know. We have Github issue where we track new releases and packaging progress.