Dolly

GIFs as code. Record GIFs for terminal applications with a just few lines of code 🎬.

The above example is generated from a single dolly file: (demo.vhs).

Tutorial

Type anything into the terminal with the Type command.

Type "echo 'Hello, world!'"

Press the Enter key with the Enter command.

Enter

Press the Backspace key in the terminal with the Backspace command.

Backspace

Wait for a certain amount of time with the Sleep command.

Sleep 1s

Putting it all together...

Type "echo 'Hello World'"
Enter
Backspace 5
Sleep 1s

Save the above text to a file (demo.vhs) and generate the GIF with dolly:

dolly demo.vhs
open out.gif

Commands

The following is an exhaustive list of all the commands that can be used with dolly.

Backspace[@<time>] [count]
Enter[@<time>] [count]
Sleep <time>
Space[@<time>] [count]
Type[@<time>] <characters...>

Down[@<time>] [count]
Left[@<time>] [count]
Right[@<time>] [count]
Up[@<time>] [count]

Alt+<character>
Ctrl+<character>

Feedback

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License

MIT

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