Record and share your terminal sessions, the right way.

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

Supports Linux, macOS and *BSD

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

Simple recording

Record right where you work - in a terminal. To start just run asciinema rec, to finish hit Ctrl-D or type exit.

Copy & paste

Any time you see a command you'd like to try in your own terminal just pause the player and copy-paste the content you want. It's just a text after all!

Embedding

Easily embed an asciicast player in your blog post, project documentation page or in your conference talk slides.

See the embedding docs »

Example sessions recorded with asciinema

Terminal ray tracing featured 00:11

by kosmaks

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asciinema 2.0 streaming featured 15:33

by benaryorg

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NetHack: Crushed by collapsing drawbridge featured 01:01

by TheLocehiliosan

  Daily report for March 19th, 2018                                                       StackOverflow  50 reputation earned        WakaTime       no time spent coding        GitHub         4 contributions made                                               ⋊> ~ devstats -i                   07:29:11                                             Daily report for March 19th, 2018                                                       StackOverflow  50 reputation earned        WakaTime       no time spent coding        GitHub         Loading ...                                                          [← Previous day] [→ Next day] [Q Quit]

DevStats async loading, interactive mode and caching featured 00:30

by shroudedcode

891\t945\t943\t2746\t186\t206\t2678\t2156" "3632\t3786\t125\t2650\t1765\t1129\t306\t99\t105\t1922\t112\t1136\t3242" "6070\t6670\t1885\t1994\t178\t230\t5857\t241252\t806\t6116\t4425\t3944" "2257\t155\t734\t228\t204\t2180\t175\t2277\t180\t227\t1763\t112\t2054"]                                                             cljs.user=> (-> (io/slurp "day02")                                                     #_=>     string/split-lines                                                     #_=>     first)                                                          "626\t2424\t2593\t139\t2136\t163\t1689\t367\t2235\t125\t2365\t924\t135\t2583\t14cljs.user=> (-> (io/slurp "day02")                                                     #_=>     string/split-lines                                                     #_=>     first                                                                  #_=>     (string/split #"\s+")                                                  #_=>     (())                                                            #_=> ["626" "2424" "2593" "139" "2136" "163" "1689" "367" "2235" "125" "2365" "9425" "2502"]

Figwheel Rebel readline proof of concept with new ClojureScript main and cli tools featured 03:04

by bhauman

root@vps-32770:/home/madmad# sh love.sh                                         ____________________________$$$$$$$$$$                                          ______________$$$$$$$$$____$$$$$777777$$                                        _____________$$$$$7777$$$$$$$$7777777777$                                       ___________$$$$$777777777$$$$77777777777$$                                      ___________$$$$777777777777$7777777777777$_____██                               __________$$$$77777777777777777777██7█

asciicast:168763 featured 00:06

by smartmimo

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