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What is termscraper?

It's an in memory VTXXX-compatible terminal emulator. XXX stands for a series of video terminals, developed by DEC between 1970 and 1995. The first, and probably the most famous one, was VT100 terminal, which is now a de-facto standard for all virtual terminal emulators.

termscraper follows the suit. It is a direct fork of pyte 0.8.1 which in turn it is a fork of vt102.

termscraper aims to be used mostly for scraping terminal apps like htop or very long logs from tail or less in a very efficient way so it may not support all the features that a full VT100 terminal would have.

Installation

If you have pip you can do the usual:

$ pip install termscraper

Otherwise, download the source from GitHub termscraper and run:

$ python setup.py install

Similar projects

termscraper is not alone in the weird world of terminal emulator libraries, here's a few other options worth checking out:

• Termemulator
• pyqonsole
• webtty
• AjaxTerm
• pyte
• vt102