Gifs are not trending anymore, but what about ascii gifs?

• retrieve a gif using tenor and/or giphy apis
• transform the gif into an "ascii gif"
• display the gif on the command line
• enjoy!

How to install

cargo install ascii-gif

Examples

# retrieve a gif using tenor random api and querying "pikachu"
ascii-gif --query "pikachu" --tenor

# retrieve a gif using tenor random api and querying "pikachu"
ascii-gif --query "pikachu" --giphy

# retrieve the gif with id 15452657 using tenor api
ascii-gif --id "15452657" --tenor

# retrieve the gif with id U2nN0ridM4lXy using giphy api
ascii-gif --id "U2nN0ridM4lXy" --giphy

Ascii encoding

The ascii encoding can be performed using 10 or 70 characters. The default encoding uses 10 characters. It is possible to use 70 characters encoding using the --encoding parameter

ascii-gif --id "U2nN0ridM4lXy" --giphy --encoding 70

Still a "work in progress" project

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todos

• enhance ascii transformation (choose better characters / enrich characters)
• turn code into better rust