charmbracelet/vhs
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Your CLI home video recorder 📼
37 mentions on Hacker News by 31 people: 4 stories, 33 comments · first 2022-10-27 · latest 2026-06-14
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…render docs/demo/kage.tape -o docs/static/demo.gif Looks like it's an opinionated wrapper around https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs
comment by simonw · 2026-06-14 · in Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing -
Thanks! Made them with github.com/charmbracelet/vhs
comment by armen99 · 2026-03-09 · in Show HN: Deadbranch – Interactive TUI for cleaning stale Git branches (Rust) -
https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs is a really good utility for automatically making these gifs.
comment by stavros · 2025-12-26 · in Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system -
…recommend showcasing the interactivity with a few GIFs in your README. You can script them with https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs
comment by bbkane · 2025-12-23 · in Show HN: Yapi – FOSS terminal API client for power users -
…don’t already have a preferred workflow for autogenerating these, you might be interested in vhs https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs I am not affiliated, I just think it’s a neat tool
comment by ciarand · 2025-12-12 · in Show HN: Gotui – a modern Go terminal dashboard library -
…on automation, supports gif, png, webp, etc. I’ve been really impressed with the output of vhs https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs
comment by hnlmorg · 2025-10-26 · in Show HN: FlashRecord – 2MB Python-native CLI screen recorder -
vhs can also create video files: https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs#output
comment by ggaughan · 2025-07-25 · in Asciinema: Record and share your terminal sessions -
I’ve moved over to using vhs https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs
comment by theraven · 2025-07-25 · in Asciinema: Record and share your terminal sessions -
I've been using vhs ( https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs ) to script gif creation- really showcases CLI workflows if you're demoing multiple commands. Examples: https://github.com/bbkane
comment by bbkane · 2025-06-24 · in Writing toy software is a joy -
…programmatically create an interactive demo GIF. That has worked very well for me in the past. [1]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs
comment by zacharytamas · 2025-05-30 · in Show HN: Git-Add–Interactive with Enhancements -
…help clarify what your tool does. I've used an automated flow with Github Actions and Charm's VHS ( https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs ) in my repo here to demo my CLI tool I built a while back ( https://github.com/Amber-Williams/yall/blo…
comment by williamsss · 2025-05-18 · in Ditching Obsidian and building my own -
…EDIT: Looks like image generator might be from one of their own projects: https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs
comment by arcanemachiner · 2024-11-19 · in Sequin: A powerful little tool for inspecting ANSI escape sequences -
…(at least for my purposes, where I like to have lots of terminal demos in my documentation). [1]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs
comment by woodruffw · 2024-11-19 · in Sequin: A powerful little tool for inspecting ANSI escape sequences -
Thank you. I was using VHS for the demo. Here is the link: https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs
comment by dh1011 · 2024-08-29 · in Show HN: LLM-Term – Simple Rust-based CLI assist tool -
In a previous gig we used < https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs > and kept the "tape" in git. This way it sort of ensured that updates to the CLI were updated. If someone added something and didn't update the the tape, it would be noticed…
comment by dansult · 2024-08-19 · in Ask HN: What terminal recording tools lets you edit/run recordings? -
Another approach, generating gifs from cli interactions, is vhs : https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs
comment by az09mugen · 2024-08-11 · in Asciinema – Record and share your terminal sessions the easy way -
…(made with ratatui channel on our discord server) We encourage our users to use https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs to build out demos that look neat. My particular favorite of the bunch (from a look and feel perspective) is https://gith
comment by joshka · 2024-05-06 · in Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones? -
I'm a huge fan of charmbracelet's vhs: https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs I have a gitlab CI job to update my demo .gif's every time I update my application; always ensures that things are up-to-date and provides gif/video recording that…
comment by imroot · 2024-05-02 · in Ask HN: How do people create those sleek looking demos for startups? -
https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs/blob/main/record.go#L22 I was looking at the code, and it seems like you could put a low value for this and it would do what you want. I did not try it though // sleepThreshold is the time at which if…
comment by alain_gilbert · 2024-02-08 · in Asciinema 3.0 will be rewritten in Rust -
…could obv record doing search/replace/deletions The fact you can iterate at all is its appeal to me https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs?tab=readme-ov-file#vhs-...
comment by grimgrin · 2024-02-08 · in Asciinema 3.0 will be rewritten in Rust -
…has me cancelling out to redo w/ some minor change, so this tape concept is really attractive 1. https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs
comment by grimgrin · 2024-02-08 · in Asciinema 3.0 will be rewritten in Rust -
An alternative: https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs By charm.sh
comment by denysvitali · 2023-11-04 · in Asciinema: Record and share your terminal sessions, the simple way -
See also: https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs - Write terminal GIFs as code for integration testing and demoing your CLI tools Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33357956
comment by asicsp · 2023-11-04 · in Asciinema: Record and share your terminal sessions, the simple way -
Sounds something like charm’s vhs: https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs
comment by candrewlee14 · 2023-09-05 · in Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64 -
…invocation as a GIF for embedding in docs and demos and such. Super easy name to remember. See https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs
comment by cstrahan · 2023-07-16 · in Penrose 3.0 -
Moving pictures: https://asciinema.org/ https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs Still image: https://github.com/nbedos/termtosvg (dead, unknown if usable?)
comment by endigma · 2023-05-29 · in A terminal case of Linux -
…- https://github.com/charmbracelet/wish - Golang SSH server that makes building SSH apps easy - https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs - terminal GIF demos - https://github.com/charmbracelet/log - minimal and colorful go logs -…
comment by tester457 · 2023-05-23 · in How to start a Go project in 2023 -
Share it on relevant subreddits and make a gif out how to use it with https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs Projects with gifs on reddit get more attention. Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/z0zm8x/oc_nap_a_c...
comment by tester457 · 2023-04-11 · in Ask HN: What's the best (non-spammy) way to promote an open source tool? -
I recently used VHS for this https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs - nice set of tools there to do various cli stuff
comment by sjg · 2023-04-05 · in Make your CLI demos a breeze with zero stress and zero mistakes -
This is used by VHS ( https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs ) to create GIF demos of CLIs/TUIs.
comment by cstrahan · 2023-03-13 · in ttyd - Share your terminal over the web -
…CLTs and TUIs. One of which was on HN recently, VHS [2]. [1] https://github.com/charmbracelet [2] https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs
comment by azemetre · 2022-12-11 · in Getting Started with Tmux -
…it's a "tool" named VHS[0]. All of that aside, it seems like a poor alternative to asciinema[1] [0] https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs [1] https://asciinema.org/
comment by alias_neo · 2022-11-08 · in Recreating sci-fi terminals using VHS -
Or a recording, could use something like https://asciinema.org/ or https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs
comment by asicsp · 2022-11-07 · in Show HN: Game of Life on non-square topologies with 2^32 update rules