Show HN: tmux2html - Render full tmux windows or individual panes as HTML (opens in new tab)

Here's an example of not-so-real time rendering: https://share.esdf.io/log.html

It's a tmux window displaying the log file for the share.esdf.io domain. It refreshes every second, so the message above about animated examples applies.

Like I mentioned there, I use it to pester my friends :)

tmux is simply fantastic for keeping a session active. Not to mention you won't need to use multiple disjointed emulator windows to do something like keep tabs on a log file while you're working. You can even "full screen" a pane by pressing `Ctrl+b z`! I love being able to ssh into a server (or even my home computer) and simply resume where I left off, from any computer! My friend, let me also take a moment to tell you about Vim.... ;)

Back on topic: I think it would be good for anything where you want things to look almost exactly what's on your screen with high fidelity. Someone submitted an issue to have tmux2html continuously write to the same file that reloads itself. That could be used to have a not-so-realtime snapshot of a pane that's accessible from a browser. Perhaps, some weirdly draconian workplace that requires all employees to use tmux can routinely take a snapshot of all workstation sessions to make sure they aren't goofing off watching ASCII youtube[1]. Who knows!

1: http://annasagrera.com/on-ascii-youtube-and-letting-go/

asciinema is a very useful. But, what I found unappealing about it was that I needed asciinema to play the recordings (is that still the case?). I wanted to be able to put the rendered session anywhere I wanted.

The example links are actually hosted on my server and were uploaded using Dropshare. Pretty easy peasy if I need to share something that I don't want public.

Not real-time, but yes, kind of. Add `--stream` to the command. Here's an example of it rendering every second: https://share.esdf.io/log.html

It is displaying the log file for my share.esdf.io domain (with IPs masked). I may take that link down in an hour or two if my puny server gets hammered.

The examples are linked on the github page. This was something I had a tiny internal debate about. This thing renders HTML, but I wanted something visual on the README. But, that would require a screenshot...of the rendered HTML page. I don't know why, but that was very silly to me. If it's a screenshot, who is to say that I didn't just take a screen shot of my terminal?

I posted this on /r/coolgithubprojects and one of the comments was someone thought that the linked examples were screenshots until they selected the text.

In any case I'll post a separate comment with the linked examples.

I thought about it, but it would bring this outside of the scope of a weekend project :) Besides, gotty might be better suited for that task: https://github.com/yudai/gotty