# nbedos/termtosvg

Record terminal sessions as SVG animations

Repository: https://github.com/nbedos/termtosvg
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/termtosvg
Homepage: https://nbedos.github.io/termtosvg/
Language: Python
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: terminal, svg, cli, shell, animation, svg-animations, recorder, recording
Archived: true
Last push: 2020-06-16T11:01:41+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3007, "days_push": 2269, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 9758, forks 438 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:37.086617+00:00)

## What it is
termtosvg is a Unix terminal recorder written in Python that renders command line sessions as standalone, lightweight SVG animations. It supports custom themes and templates and can render asciinema asciicast recordings.

## Use cases
- record terminal sessions as svg animations
- create animated demos of cli tools for readme
- convert asciinema recordings to svg
- embed terminal screencasts in project documentation
- customize terminal recording appearance with svg templates

## When to choose
- you want lightweight, dependency-free SVG animations of terminal sessions embeddable in web pages or READMEs
- you need custom terminal window frames, color themes, or animation controls via templates
- you already have asciicast recordings you want rendered as SVG

## When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained tool - the project has been read-only since June 2020
- you need video formats like GIF or MP4 instead of SVG
- you need Windows support - it targets Unix-like systems only

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: cli, animation, graphics
- domain: developer-tools, documentation
- platform: bsd, python, cli
- tags: terminal-recorder, svg-animation, asciinema, screen-recording, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- nbedos/termtosvg (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:37.086617+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:21:11.369123+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nbedos/termtosvg (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:37.086617+00:00, sha d782aa582109)
  - homepage: https://nbedos.github.io/termtosvg/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:20:42.022912+00:00, sha 21287aa66b67)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/termtosvg/json (fetched 2026-08-29T08:20:42.025575+00:00, sha 8137128182b6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.