term-kitty-img

Show images in your kitty terminal.

(Based on npm:term-img but for kitty protocol instead of iTerm2)

Install

npm install term-kitty-img

Usage

import { terminalKittyImage } from "term-kitty-img";

terminalKittyImage("unicorn.jpg", {
  width: 800, // default bounding box of 600px wide
  height: 150, // default bounding box of 600px high
  // note: dimensions are in pixels (cannot use percentages or cells)
  preserveAspectRatio: false, // default true
  // note:
  // (when false, width and height are exact, image stretches)
  // (when true, width and height act as a contain box, image shrinks to fit)
  fallback: () => {
    console.error("Could not load unicorn");
  },
});

Notes

The kitty protocol is very awkward to use with Node. I was lucky to find a way to make it work by using spawn with stdin:inherit, if someone has a better way to solve this lmk!

Output code is ES6 and targets:

• node 10+
• All major non-dead browsers (>93%)

MIT