TermVisage

Browse and view images in the terminal

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Contents

• Installation
• Features
• Demo
• Quick Start
• Usage
• Contribution
• Planned Features
• Known Issues
• FAQs
• Credits
• Sponsor This Project

Installation

Requirements

• Operating System: Unix / Linux / Mac OS X / Windows (limited support, see the FAQs)

• Python >= 3.8

• A terminal emulator with any of the following:

  • support for the Kitty graphics protocol
  • support for the iTerm2 inline image protocol
  • Unicode and direct-color (truecolor) support

  Plans to support a wider variety of terminal emulators are in motion (see the library's planned features).

Steps

The latest version can be installed from PyPI using pipx with:

pipx install termvisage

and upgraded with:

pipx upgrade termvisage

NOTE: pip can also be used but pipx is recommended.

See the installation docs for info about optional features and more.

Features

• Almost everything the term-image library supports
• Display individual images
• Browse multiple images and directories (recursively)
• Efficient and configurable thumbnailing
• Adjustable image grids
• Context-based controls
• Customizable controls and configuration options
• Smooth and performant experience
• Shell completion for command-line arguments
• and more... 😁

Demo

Multiple Render Styles

block	iterm2	kitty

High-Resolution Images

Video Demo

demo.mp4

Gallery

Check out the Gallery for more.

Quick Start

With a file path:

termvisage path/to/image.png

With a URL:

termvisage https://www.example.com/image.png

With a directory, recursively (not currently supported on Windows):

termvisage -r path/to/dir/

If a single source is given and it's animated (GIF, APNG, Animated WebP), the animation is infinitely looped by default and can be stopped with Ctrl-C (SIGINT).

By default, if multiple sources or at least one directory source is given, the TUI (Terminal User Interface) is launched to navigate through the images and/or directories.

Usage

CLI (Command-Line Interface)

Run termvisage --help to see the basic help message or termvisage --long-help for the full help message.

See the CLI manual.

TUI (Terminal User Interface)

The controls are context-based and always displayed at the bottom of the screen. Pressing the F1 key (in most contexts) brings up a help menu describing the available controls (called actions) in that context.

The TUI can be configured using a config file. See the Configuration section of the docs.

Here is a config file with Vim-style key-bindings (majorly navigation).

See the TUI manual.

Contribution

If you've found any bug or want to suggest a new feature, please open a new issue with proper description, after browsing/searching through the existing issues and making sure you won't create a duplicate.

For code contributions, please read through the guidelines.

Also, check out the Planned Features section below. If you wish to work on any of the listed tasks, please click on the linked issue or go through the issues tab and join in on an ongoing discussion about the task or create a new issue if one hasn't been created yet, so that the implementation can be discussed.

Hint: You can filter issues by label or simply search using the task's name or description.

For anything other than the above (such as questions or anything that would fit under the term "discussion"), please open a new discussion instead.

Thanks! 💓

Planned Features

See here.

Known Issues

See here.

FAQs

See the FAQs section of the docs.

Credits

The following projects have been (and are still) crucial to the development of this project:

• term-image by @AnonymouX47
• Pillow by Fredrik Lundh, Jeffrey A. Clark (Alex) and contributors
• Urwid by Ian Ward et al
• argcomplete by Andrey Kislyuk

The logo was composed using resource(s) from the following source(s):

• Gallery icons created by Andrean Prabowo - Flaticon

Thanks to @digitallyserviced for the project name and logo concept.

Sponsor This Project

Any amount will go a long way in aiding the progress and development of this project. Thank you! 💓