CLI

Browser

• w3m Browser: http://w3m.sourceforge.net/
• Googler: https://github.com/jarun/googler
• DuckDuckGo: https://github.com/jarun/ddgr (Browser: https://duckduckgo.com/tty/)
• Twitter: rainbowstream sudo apt -y install python3-pip && sudo pip3 install rainbowstream

Collaborate

• Chat: https://weechat.org/ sudo apt-get install weechat (Documentation)
• Chat: https://github.com/irssi/irssi e.g. apt install irssi
• Stream Terminal Session: https://github.com/miguelmota/streamhut
• Share Files using QR code: https://github.com/claudiodangelis/qrcp
• GPG: https://github.com/orhun/gpg-tui
• Video-Chat: https://github.com/dialup-inc/ascii

Dev

• git interactive rebase tool
• System resource monitor: https://github.com/aristocratos/btop

File Transfer

• Sync https://www.etebase.com/ → https://www.etesync.com/
• Sync/Backup https://syncthing.net/
• Send Files: https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole
• rtorrent: https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent
• IPFS: https://ipfs.io
• transfer.sh: https://github.com/dutchcoders/transfer.sh
• croc: https://github.com/schollz/croc

Games

• nudoku is a ncurses based sudoku game. https://bronevichok.ru/ttygames/#nudoku
• Chess: https://github.com/vinc/littlewing
• Solitaire: https://github.com/mpereira/tty-solitaire

Work with files

• File Explorer: https://github.com/sayanarijit/xplr
• Photo Search Tool: https://github.com/yurijmikhalevich/rclip
• Terminal UI for SQLite: https://github.com/mathaou/termdbms

Money

• Stocks https://github.com/achannarasappa/ticker
• CoinMon https://github.com/bichenkk/coinmon

Music

• Beets: https://github.com/beetbox/beets pip install beets
• Musikcube (Spotify): https://github.com/clangen/musikcube
• Background Noise: https://github.com/JaDogg/noisebox
• Spotify: spotify-tui or ncspot

Example running ncspot:

Visualize audio in the terminal

paura_lite.py takes no arguments and just records sounds, while visualizing each segment's spectrogram in the console.

Install required tools

sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install libasound-dev portaudio19-dev libportaudio2 libportaudiocpp0
sudo apt-get install python3-opencv gnuplot
pip3 install numpy pyaudio termplotlib
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/tyiannak/pyAudioAnalysis.git
cd pyAudioAnalysis
pip3 install -r ./requirements.txt
pip3 install -e .
cd ..
git clone https://github.com/tyiannak/paura
cd paura
python3 paura_lite.py

This is how it should look like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEi9AmA-07s

Read News

• Wikipedia: https://github.com/yashsinghcodes/fetch
• Hacker News: https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news

Office Tools

• Mail: aerc or mblaze or mutt
• Calendar: Calcurse, (Calcure)
• Charts: https://github.com/irevenko/tsukae
• Time Tracker: https://github.com/jotaen/klog
• Text Editor: https://micro-editor.github.io/
• plaintext accounting tool: https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger
• CSV pretty printer: https://github.com/alexhallam/tv
• Bits, bytes and address calculator: https://github.com/jarun/bcal
• Code Editor: https://micro-editor.github.io/

Pictures

• Catimg: https://github.com/posva/catimg

Video

Watch Movies in ASCII

sudo apt-get install mplayer
wget https://download.blender.org/peach/bigbuckbunny_movies/big_buck_bunny_480p_stereo.ogg
mplayer -vo caca big_buck_bunny_480p_stereo.ogg

Using mpv with libcaca

mpv --quiet -vo=caca 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ'

Using mpv with tct:

mpv --quiet -vo=tct 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ'

asciinema

Install

sudo apt-get install python3 pip
sudo pip3 install asciinema

Record a session

asciinema rec
echo "hello world"
exit

Play existing recordings (local/online):

asciinema play /path/to/asciicast.cast
asciinema play https://asciinema.org/a/237459

Other

• Weather: "curl wttr.in" (https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in)
• jmespath: https://github.com/jmespath/jmespath.terminal
• Text-based desktop environment: https://github.com/netxs-group/vtm

Fun Stuff