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# About asciinema

asciinema (formerly ascii.io) is a free and open source solution for
recording terminal sessions and sharing them on the web.

It aims to be a "go to" place for every command-line user who wants to share
their skills with others. Or putting it differently, it's a place to show off
your geekiness.

asciinema project is built of several sub-projects:

* command-line based terminal session recorder, `asciinema` ([source code](https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema))
* asciinema.org - a website with an API ([source code](https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema.org))
* javascript player ([source code](https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema-player))

If technical details interest you then read more about
[how it works](/docs/how-it-works).

## Contributing

Help the project by [contributing](<%= contributing_path %>) money or time.

## A bit of history

asciinema project was started by <a href="/~sickill">Marcin Kulik</a>
([@sickill](https://twitter.com/sickill)) in the beginning of 2011 as
ascii.io.  He was playing with the idea of sharing terminal session
recordings on the web since 2010 but the working prototype came to life a bit
later. asciinema.org site had a first public release in March 2012 (as
ascii.io then). The project was renamed to "asciinema" in September 2013.

asciinema is actively developed with the help of great open
source [contributors](https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema.org/contributors).

## Reporting bugs

As the service is built of several parts there are separate bug trackers:

* [github.com/asciinema/asciinema/issues](https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema/issues) - for recorder issues and ideas
* [github.com/asciinema/asciinema.org/issues](https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema.org/issues) - for website/embedding issues and ideas
* [github.com/asciinema/asciinema-player/issues](https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema-player/issues) - for player issues and ideas

Please only use them for reporting bugs and submitting feature requests.
Do not ask for general help there. Use IRC or the support email for that.

## Credits

Thanks to the following companies and individuals for providing services
and resources:

* [Brightbox](http://brightbox.com) - [cloud servers](http://brightbox.com)
* [Reza Ali](http://www.syedrezaali.com/blog/) - homepage background
* [Bugsnag](https://bugsnag.com/) - error monitoring
