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.
Example sessions recorded with asciinema
__________________________________________ / About the time we think we can make ends \ | meet, somebody moves the ends. | \ -- Herbert Hoover / ------------------------------------------ \ \ __ UooU\.'@@@@@@`. \__/(@@@@@@@@@@) (@@@@@@@@) `YY~~~~YY' || || codehex@AirBook [~/go/src/github.com/Code-Hex/Neo-cowsay] master ❯❯❯
Neo-Cowsay --rainbow --aurora --bold featured 00:18
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asciicast:326923 featured 04:01
by lattis47 000002e0: 8201 fc42 0800 4500 012c a837 0000 fa11 ...B..E..,.7.... 48 000002f0: 178a 0000 0000 ffff ffff 0044 0043 0118 ...........D.C.. 49 00000300: 9fbd 0101 0600 0000 3d1e 0000 0000 0000 ........=....... 50 00000310: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 000b ................ 51 00000320: 8201 fc42 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ...B............ 52 00000330: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 53 00000340: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 54 00000350: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 55 00000360: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 56 00000370: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 57 00000380: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 58 00000390: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 59 000003a0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ NORMAL dhcp.pcap[+] latin1[unix] 54/ffff ffff
Editing hex with vim featured 00:51
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20200518202859 hrogue: procedural map generation featured 00:28
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