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Top 23 Python ascii-art Projects
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import subprocess, re import requests from mcp.server.fastmcp import FastMCP mcp = FastMCP("Edge MCP Server") @mcp.tool() def read_temp(): out = subprocess.check_output(["vcgencmd", "measure_temp"]).decode() temp_c = float(re.search(r"[-\\d.]+", out).group()) return temp_c @mcp.tool() def get_current_weather(city: str) -> str: return requests.get(f"https://wttr.in/{city}").text if __name__ == "__main__": mcp.run(transport="sse")
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Project mention: Chinese Video Creator Hetongxue Violating MIT License | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-21
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asciimatics
A cross platform package to do curses-like operations, plus higher level APIs and widgets to create text UIs and ASCII art animations
Project mention: 5 Best Python TUI Libraries for Building Text-Based User Interfaces | dev.to | 2024-11-095.ASCIIMATICS ASCIIMATICS A cross platform package to do curses-like operations, plus higher level APIs and widgets to create text UIs and ASCII art animations
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terminaltexteffects
TerminalTextEffects (TTE) is a terminal visual effects engine, application, and Python library.
Project mention: TIL you can make "GIFs" with SVGs for GitHub README.md files | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-08This looks cool. I'll see if it works to shrink the size of the many terminal recording GIFs I use over at https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects. I have to process these through a few passes to get them down to 2-4MB, it would be wonderful if I can reduce the size and improve the quality at the same time. In the README and in my effects showroom docs the GIFs are, unfortunately, quite large.
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video-to-ascii
It is a simple python package to play videos in the terminal using characters as pixels
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InfluxDB
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Project mention: Make ASCII Art Anywhere_ Use Python’s `pyfiglet` in Ruby, .NET Core, and Node.js with Javonet | dev.to | 2025-08-21
pyfiglet is a full Python port of the original FIGlet tool. It turns simple text into stylish ASCII banners using various fonts. It's perfect for:
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durdraw
Versatile ASCII and ANSI Art text editor for drawing in the Linux/Unix/macOS terminal, with animation, 256 and 16 colors, Unicode and CP437, and customizable themes
I’m a big fan of durdraw[1] for crafting ANSI/ASCII art in the terminal, but this takes it to a whole new level, excited to try this especially if it includes color? From the website examples it doesn’t appear to include a color palette, but if it does then game on!
[1] https://github.com/cmang/durdraw
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github-readme-terminal
✨ Elevate your GitHub Profile ReadMe with Minimalistic Retro Terminal GIFs 🚀
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Project mention: Show HN: Termichess – Play chess right on your terminal | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-07
There was some trouble in scaling unicode text within the layout. Unfortunately increasing `font-size` is not trivial within the context of terminal. There are some ways around this , but i figured out that it's far more easier to render chess pieces as pixel images using `rich-pixels` [1]
[1] https://github.com/darrenburns/rich-pixels
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ascii-telnet-server
Can stream an ~20 minutes ASCII movie via Telnet emulation as stand alone server or via xinetd daemon. Using famous ASCII art animation from www.asciimation.co.nz (Star ASCIIMATION Wars)
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Project mention: PyBonsai: A script to generate an ASCII bonsai tree | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-19
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Colored-ASCII-Video
A program that takes a video file and outputs colored ASCII real-time video inside a terminal
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The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
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Python ascii-art discussion
Python ascii-art related posts
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Make ASCII Art Anywhere_ Use Python’s `pyfiglet` in Ruby, .NET Core, and Node.js with Javonet
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Show HN: MoebiusXBIN – ASCII and text-mode art editor with custom font support
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Show HN: Terminal Flower Garden
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PyBonsai: A script to generate an ASCII bonsai tree
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Programming with ChatGPT
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Things I've learned building a modern TUI Framework
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Show HN: Durdraw – a modern ANSI art editor for modern Unix terminals
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Index
What are some of the best open-source ascii-art projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | wttr.in | 27,438 |
| 2 | ASCII-generator | 7,979 |
| 3 | asciimatics | 4,165 |
| 4 | terminaltexteffects | 3,402 |
| 5 | art | 2,347 |
| 6 | video-to-ascii | 1,761 |
| 7 | DeepAA | 1,548 |
| 8 | pyfiglet | 1,472 |
| 9 | durdraw | 1,208 |
| 10 | asciidots | 1,144 |
| 11 | textual-paint | 1,053 |
| 12 | github-readme-terminal | 643 |
| 13 | rich-pixels | 340 |
| 14 | ascii-telnet-server | 285 |
| 15 | ascii-draw | 255 |
| 16 | Charcoal | 223 |
| 17 | vim-boxdraw | 196 |
| 18 | ASCII-Video | 175 |
| 19 | Ascify-Art | 136 |
| 20 | PyBonsai | 117 |
| 21 | Colored-ASCII-Video | 112 |
| 22 | To-ASCII | 70 |
| 23 | fade | 59 |
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