ascii.live

October 8, 2023 · View on GitHub

A project for hosting curl-based animations, all in one place, and a follow up to parrot.live.

Any animations you want to add are welcome! 🎉

Try it out in your terminal:

curl ascii.live/parrot

Running locally

To run the server locally on port 8080, run:

go run main.go

Running in Docker

docker run -p 8080:8080 hugomd/ascii-live:latest

Adding frames

  • Fork this repository
  • Create a new frame file in /frames, call it the name of your frames/animation, e.g. parrot.go
  • Inside your new file, create an exported list of frames, e.g.
package frames

// This is the value stored in the FrameMap
var MyAnimation = DefaultFrameType(myAnimationFrames)

var myAnimationFrames = []string{
  `Frame1`,
  `Frame2`,
  `Frame3`,
}

Frame Contributions

Here's a list of lovely people who have contributed frames to this project:

ContributorFrame FileRepository
hexrcsforrest.gorun-forrest-run
jmhobbsparrot.goterminal-parrot
01000001knot.gotorus-knot