{"repo":"zfogg/ascii-chat","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/zfogg/ascii-chat","clone":"git clone https://github.com/zfogg/ascii-chat.git","description":"💻📸 video chat in your terminal 🔡💬","language":"C","stars":197,"topics":["ascii","ascii-art","c","cli","command-line","encryption","ipv4","network","networking","shell"],"license":"MIT","category":"cli-tools","readme_excerpt":"💻📸 ascii-chat 🔡💬 Video chat in your terminal 🌐 ascii-chat.com - Homepage, installation, and documentation 📚 API Reference & Man Pages - Developer API reference and C library documentation Probably the first command line video chat program (let me know if this isn't true). Initial commits November 20-24, 2013 , with @craigpalermo, at some collegiate hackathon. ascii-chat is a client-server application that operates over TCP/IP. It supports color and audio and crypto and compression and multiple clients and has many little features and options. The client functions by simply printing text and terminal escape codes to your terminal, so it works EVERYWHERE that terminals work: on rxvt-unicode in OpenBox, in a Putty SSH session, in iTerm and Kitty.app on macOS, and theoretically everywhere else terminals run. You just need a webcam. ascii-chat even works in an initial unix login shell. You know, the shell that runs 'startx' and launches your desktop environment so you can open a gui terminal app like Konsole or Kitty or Alacritty in kde or xfce. You don't need a desktop environment at all to video chat with ascii-chat. (\\ ) 🆕 We support UTF-8 now so it's not just ASCII anymore. However, the name is still ascii-chat. 🆕 Now 3+ simultaneous people can connect and the server will render the clients to each other as a grid, like Google Hangouts and Zoom calls do. See the Network Protocol in the man3 pages. 🆕 Audio is now supported - turn on your microphone and start talking! S","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/zfogg","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/zfogg/ascii-chat/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}