asciinema
Terminal session recorder, streamer and player 📹 observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
91/100
- Activity 97
- Release rhythm 77
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 81
- age_days: 5399
- days_rel: 78
- days_push: 19
- n_releases_24m: 6
Adoption not part of the score
17738 stars · 1040 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
asciinema is a suite of open-source tools for recording, replaying, live-streaming, and sharing terminal sessions as lightweight text-based asciicast files instead of video. It includes a Rust CLI recorder/player, a web player for embedding recordings, a self-hostable server, and GIF conversion utilities.
Use cases
- record terminal sessions for tutorials and demos
- share reproducible bug reports as text recordings
- embed terminal recordings in blog posts or project documentation
- live stream a terminal session to viewers in real time
- convert terminal recordings to animated GIFs
- replay recorded terminal sessions with adjustable speed
- self-host a terminal recording sharing platform
When to choose
- you need lightweight, text-based terminal recordings instead of heavyweight video files
- you want copy-pasteable output from recorded sessions
- you need to embed interactive terminal demos in docs or READMEs
- you want to live stream terminal sessions over a network
When to avoid
- you need to capture GUI applications or anything outside a terminal
- you need actual video output like mp4 with audio
- you need screen recording with mouse cursor and visual effects
Facets
cli-tool · maturity stable
cli developer-tools terminal-ui video-processing self-hosted developer-tools documentation media self-hosted bsd cli self-hosted rust terminal-recording asciicast screen-recording live-streaming gif-generation session-replay embedding command-line linux macos web-server
9 sources
- readme: https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema · fetched 2026-08-28 · 5d898fa75802
- homepage: https://asciinema.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9bca377eca98
- site_page: https://docs.asciinema.org/getting-started · fetched 2026-08-29 · 1a97240ba03a
- site_page: https://docs.asciinema.org/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 14fd28c98ab6
- site_page: https://docs.asciinema.org/manual/server/embedding · fetched 2026-08-29 · 522646c202fe
- site_page: https://asciinema.org/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · 0d7976d476bb
- registry_crates: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/asciinema · fetched 2026-08-29 · c024dd7bc03d
- registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/asciinema-player · fetched 2026-08-29 · 78f00a6cf2a2
- site_page: https://asciinema.org/a/10462 · fetched 2026-08-29 · e91bbc76fbe1
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| asciinema/asciinema | main | 91 |
| asciinema/asciinema-player | frontend | 95 |
| asciinema/asciinema-server | backend | 91 |
| asciinema/agg | plugin | 94 |
| asciinema/asciicast2gif | plugin | 10 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="asciinema/asciinema")
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