Renders raster images for a terminal using ANSI color codes. Supported image types are JPEG, PNG, and GIF (which may be animated).
img2ansi motd.png
img2ansi -animate -repeat=5 -scale https://i.imgur.com/872FDBm.gif
img2ansi -h
Image converter based on @saikobee's nifty tool
go get github.com/bmatsuo/img2ansi
NOTE: Windows is not supported.
On godoc.org
img2ansi is built to work with streams and can operate on standard input.
So, while it natively supports GET requests against HTTP URLs you can pipe data
in from curl, netcat, or whatever else.
curl https://i.imgur.com/872FDBm.gif | img2ansi -animate -width=80 -repeat=5
netcat -lp 8000 | img2ansi -animate -width=80
The output of img2ansi can be redirected to a file and replayed later using
cat.
img2ansi -animate -width=80 -repeat=5 https://i.imgur.com/872FDBm.gif > awesome
cat awesome
Better yet, the output can be compressed using a program like gzip
img2ansi -animate -width=80 -repeat=5 https://i.imgur.com/872FDBm.gif | gzip > awesome.gz
gzip -dc awesome.gz
The size difference can be substantial for large images (like GIFs).
$ ls -lh awsome*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bmatsuo bmatsuo 1.4M Jun 20 01:52 awesome
-rw-rw-r-- 1 bmatsuo bmatsuo 114K Jun 20 01:52 awesome.gz
For simple manipulation and combination of images and text unix-friendly tools
like those provided by ImageMagick can be piped
directly into img2ansi.
convert -background transparent -fill red -pointsize 72 label:"blorp" gif:- | img2ansi -scale