screenrun is a utility that attaches to a running GNU screen session and forwards a display of it to a website
on https://screen.run (read-only)
This code currently only supports MacOS, and only with the Homebrew-installed GNU screen (4.4+). The default verion that ships with MacOS is years old and uses a different communications protocol.
- BUG: If the
screenrunprocess is killed, it will leave the screen it left in kind of a bad state. I'm working on this. - BUG: Only MacOS is supported. Every operating system has a different protocol, and so far I have only done the work to support MacOS with screen 4.4+
- BUG: Emojis (and probably Unicode in general) are lost in one of the terminal emulation layers.
- NOTE: Obviously, this exports your screen session to the entire world (read-only). The server is SSL-enabled and the id generated should be unguessable.
- NOTE: The web terminal is fixed to 132x50. screen does not support resolution negotiation for multi-attach mode very well, so it's probably best if your screen session has resolution lower than or equal to 132x50. (Smaller is fine — it will just show a dashed border).
go get github.com/swenson/screenrun
First, make a screen session like you normally do
$ /usr/local/bin/screen -S helloworld
In a separate tab or terminal, find out where the socket is:
$ /usr/local/bin/screen -ls
There is a screen on:
19561.testing (Attached)
1 Socket in /tmp/uscreens/S-swenson.
Pass the full location of the socket to screenrun, and you should
see it attaching to the screen session.
It will give you the web address that anyone can view
$ screenrun /tmp/uscreens/S-swenson/19561.testing
Attaching to screen /tmp/uscreens/S-swenson/19561.testing...
Attached
View at https://screen.run/view?id=J3TEO54IFLQWJ7ZZILJFJTUM
- Support Ubuntu
- Support emojis
- Save a session to a ttyrec file
- screen protocol negotiation to discover what kind of screen we are talking to
- Better website
- Support tmux
- Support desktop video capture and save