$ gif

Gif animations in your terminal!

Installation

This tool uses image-to-ascii as dependency–that means you have to install GraphicsMagick first. Then you can install gif-cli:

$ npm i -g gif-cli

CLI Usage

gif-cli my-animation.gif
# or even shorter
gif my-animation.gif

Then your animated gif will appear in your terminal. 🎉

📋 Example

Here is an example how to use this package as library. To install it locally, as library, you can do that using npm (or yarn):

# Using npm
npm install --save gif-cli

# Using yarn
yarn add gif-cli

// Dependencies
var GifCli = require("gif-cli")
  , CliFrames = require("cli-frames")
  ;

// Convert the gif file into text frames
GifCli(__dirname + "/nyantocat.gif", function (err, frames) {
    if (err) { return Logger.log(err, "error"); }

    // Show the animation
    var animation = new CliFrames();
    animation.load(frames);
    animation.start({
        repeat: true
      , delay: 50
    });
});

❓ Get Help

There are few ways to get help:

1. Please post questions on Stack Overflow. You can open issues with questions, as long you add a link to your Stack Overflow question.

2. For bug reports and feature requests, open issues. 🐛

3. For direct and quick help, you can use Codementor. 🚀

📝 Documentation

For full API reference, see the DOCUMENTATION.md file.

😋 How to contribute

Have an idea? Found a bug? See how to contribute.

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💫 Where is this library used?

If you are using this library in one of your projects, add it in this list. ✨

• reimertz (by Pierre Reimertz)—pierre reimertz on the cli

📜 License

MIT © Ionică Bizău