Open source terminal window screen capture tools for developers

Developers need to radiate complex steps and terminal commands to other developers. There are many open source tools to help us in this area. But it is hard to search them and narrow them down. In this article, I am trying to consolidate my favourite picks.

Following tools helps developers to capture their terminal window.

asciinema

asciinema is a free and open source solution for recording terminal sessions and sharing them on the web.

Excellent examples are giving in https://asciinema.org/. We can copy-paste text from the recorded session.

Asciinema example — always on top

termynal

termynal is a lightweight and modern animated terminal window capturing tool.

Credit: https://github.com/ines/termynal

The above one is a gif. But the actual one is a javascript widget.

We can copy-paste the commands from the screen shot.

Examples:

• Simple example: CodePen demo, example.html
• Custom example: CodePen demo, example2.html

terminalizer

terminalizer helps to record our terminal and generate animated gif images. We cannot copy-paste the commands from this screen capture.

Credit: https://github.com/faressoft/terminalizer