# Asciinema, the terminal YouTube

**URL:** <https://discourse.asciinema.org/t/asciinema-the-terminal-youtube/203>\
**Category:** Ideas\
**Created:** [March 27, 2019, 5:35am UTC](https://discourse.asciinema.org/t/asciinema-the-terminal-youtube/203 "2019-03-27T05:35:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![pabloab](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/discourse.asciinema.org/pabloab/32/88_2.png) [@pabloab](https://discourse.asciinema.org/u/pabloab)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 5:35am UTC](https://discourse.asciinema.org/t/asciinema-the-terminal-youtube/203/1 "2019-03-27T05:35:28Z")

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I was about to search for a taskwarrior tutorial on YouTube but first I think of search on [asciinema.org](http://asciinema.org). I was very disappointed when I realized there is no search tool on home. And AFAIK nowhere in the site. The closest thing is in /explore/public. I didn’t found if this was already mentioned:

I think [asciinema.org](http://asciinema.org) could be **the YouTube of terminal screencast** , there is a huge potential, adding some of the great features YT have like rate, view count and playback speed control (very important since typing is slower than reading).  
Even could be a comment area (more pro with ratings like reddit) and (why not?) a nerd social network.

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**Author:** ![Low-power](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@Low-power](https://discourse.asciinema.org/u/Low-power)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 9:47am UTC](https://discourse.asciinema.org/t/asciinema-the-terminal-youtube/203/2 "2020-05-04T09:47:58Z")

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Definitely agree. We need videos (terminal records) searching and suggesting on this site.

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**Author:** ![ku1ik](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/discourse.asciinema.org/ku1ik/32/171_2.png) [@ku1ik](https://discourse.asciinema.org/u/ku1ik)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2022, 1:28pm UTC](https://discourse.asciinema.org/t/asciinema-the-terminal-youtube/203/3 "2022-02-06T13:28:24Z")

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Great ideas, and I’ve been thinking about these on many occasions. There’s just not enough time to implement all of this, and then deal with the maintenance.

But, starting with a site-wide search should be high-value not-so-high-effort feature. ElasticSearch or Solr could be good options for this.

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**Author:** ![pbaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bb73d2/32.png) [@pbaj](https://discourse.asciinema.org/u/pbaj)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 4:49am UTC](https://discourse.asciinema.org/t/asciinema-the-terminal-youtube/203/5 "2025-05-24T04:49:35Z")

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maybe it can be integrated with [screenpipe](https://github.com/mediar-ai/screenpipe) for getting the text, videos, audio etc

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**Author:** ![ku1ik](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/discourse.asciinema.org/ku1ik/32/171_2.png) [@ku1ik](https://discourse.asciinema.org/u/ku1ik)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 10:18am UTC](https://discourse.asciinema.org/t/asciinema-the-terminal-youtube/203/6 "2025-11-07T10:18:36Z")

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Good news! I implemented recording search, which indexes titles, description, and _full terminal session content_ 🙂 It uses Postgres’ native FTS support, so no extra components (such as ElasticSearch) are needed.

It’s already on [https://asciinema.org](https://asciinema.org), and I’ll make a new release of asciinema-server soon, for those who self-host.

Give it a go. The search box is in the page top nav bar, and you can focus it by pressing `/`. Also check the search tips - there’s a link on the right side of the search results page. The syntax (explained in that tips popup) is just what Postgres `websearch_to_tsvector` supports. The results contain public recordings, and if you’re logged in you’ll also be able to find your own recordings, including unlisted and private ones.