asciinema

asciinema is a powerful and elegant solution for capturing and sharing terminal sessions. Unlike traditional screen recording tools that produce heavy, often blurry video files, asciinema records your terminal activity as plain text. This innovative approach results in extremely lightweight files that are easy to share, store, and embed.

The core value proposition of asciinema lies in its simplicity and utility. Users can start recording directly from their terminal with a single command, and the output is a 'asciicast' file. These files can be replayed in any terminal or uploaded to asciinema.org for web-based playback. The embedded player allows viewers to pause the session and copy-paste commands or output, making it an invaluable tool for technical documentation, tutorials, and collaborative debugging.