Record and share your terminal sessions, the simple 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

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asciiquarium featured 01:16

by fie

~          │  ./ghq/github.com/cljoly/telecomnancy-twitter-like         ││126880~          │  ./ghq/github.com/cljoly/telecomnancy-flashcard            ││  a4dc~          │  ./ghq/github.com/cljoly/telecomnancy-Cproject             ││  a3f1~          │  ./ghq/github.com/cljoly/telecomnancy-rsfind               ││      ~          │  ./ghq/github.com/cljoly/telecomnancy-web                  ││    :T~          │  ./ghq/github.com/cljoly/telegram-tee                      ││      ~          │  ./ghq/github.com/cljoly/sesters                           ││  tele~          │> ./ghq/github.com/cljoly/telescope-repo.nvim               ││  tele~          ╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯│      ~          ╭───────────────────── Git repositories ─────────────────────╮│  ## I~          │> teles                                            25 / 25  ││      ~          ╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯╰──────~                                                                                1                                                                              :Telescope repo list

:Telescope repo list featured 00:08

by cjoly

sh-5.1$ mix run examples/resizable_table.exs                         Generated owl app                                                    ┌─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬────┐                                 │ h1  │ h2  │ h3  │ h4  │ h5  │ h6 │                                 ├─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼────┤                                 │ r11 │ r12 │ r13 │ r14 │ r15 │ r… │                                 │ r21 │ r22 │ r23 │ r24 │ r25 │ r… │                                 │ r31 │ r32 │ r33 │ r34 │ r35 │ r… │                                 │ r41 │ r42 │ r43 │ r44 │ r45 │ r… │                                 │ r51 │ r52 │ r53 │ r54 │ r55 │ r… │                                 │ r61 │ r62 │ r63 │ r64 │ r65 │ r… │                                 │ r71 │ r72 │ r73 │ r74 │ r75 │ r… │                                 └─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴────┘

Project Owl v0.6.0 - Table featured 00:11

by fuelen

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asciicast:567970 featured 00:07

by gsobell

┌─< lighter (56/100 butane) >──────────────┐e : Spring, day 61        ¨###¨©©©¨¨^Material: Aluminum, Plastic               │e : 0800.05               è¨¨¨¨©©©¨¨│Volume: 0.01 L  Weight: 0.01 kg           │d : Calm ⇐                          │Length: 2 cm                              │ld: fists                           │Category: TOOLS                           │le: No style                        │──────────────────────────────────────────│n :                Thirst:          │This is a disposable plastic lighter.  A  │t :                Hunger:          │lighter must be carried to use various    │t : Comfortable    Weight:Overweight│drugs, like cigarettes, or to light       │nd: 6                               │things like Molotov cocktails.  You can   │ see here 1 matchbook (7/20 match). │also use a lighter to light nearby items  │t is a makeshift bed.               │on fire.                                  │                                    │──────────────────────────────────────────│           North:        NE:        v                                          │t:                     East:        └──────────────────────────────────────────┘           South:        SE:

CDDA testing featured 02:23

by CabbageGrub

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kakoune-typewriter demo featured 00:42

by Screwtapello

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