ttystudio: awesome terminal recorder

There are several utilities to record your terminal as a gif (like ttyrec). However, most of them have a number of dependencies and the procedure is rather cumbersome. ttystudio is a new tool developed with zero dependencies and support for gif and png output files.

ttystudio is mostly JS with a few C++ bindings.

Benefits

• No external dependencies, bash scripts, gif concatenation (only one gif or png generated).
• Has its own built-in gif and apng writer, imagemagick not required.
• It has a font parser to render the font during image writing so no terminal playback is required when writing the image (this also means no GUI is required at all – you can record on a remote machine via ssh).
• No glitchy frames due to imperfect GUI recording of the playback or gif concatenation.
• Will record frames even if nothing is being updated on the screen.

Installation

To install ttystudio, run:

$ sudo npm install ttystudio

Usage

To start recording, run:

$ ttystudio output.gif

To stop, press <Ctrl-q>.

For more options, run:

$ ttystudio -h

Once you are done with gif generation, don’t forget to optimize the image.

On GitHub: ttystudio