Record and share your terminal sessions, the simple way.

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

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

Easy recording

Record right where you work - in a terminal. To start, run asciinema rec demo.cast, to end press ctrl+d or type exit.

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When viewing a recording just pause the player and copy-paste the content you want. It's just text after all!

Embedding

Easily embed asciinema player in your blog post, project documentation or in conference talk slides.

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☐ Start FINDINGS-s390x.md with seam-fix entry III. Predictions · 0/1 IV. Port · 0/1 V. Boot · 0/2 ✘ Retry failed after 1 attempts: OpenAI completions stream closed before a fini Dismissed when you send your next message. π · ⬢ x-preview-f-free · 📁 ~/kernel-work/src/linux-mainline · ⑂ port/um-s390x

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