# Yet another tool to generate input

**URL:** <https://discourse.asciinema.org/t/yet-another-tool-to-generate-input/1009>\
**Category:** Show and tell\
**Tags:** cli\
**Created:** [June 17, 2025, 7:51am UTC](https://discourse.asciinema.org/t/yet-another-tool-to-generate-input/1009 "2025-06-17T07:51:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![russoz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/discourse.asciinema.org/russoz/32/629_2.png) [@russoz](https://discourse.asciinema.org/u/russoz)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2025, 7:51am UTC](https://discourse.asciinema.org/t/yet-another-tool-to-generate-input/1009/1 "2025-06-17T07:51:53Z")

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Hi everyone, I wanted to generate one of those terminal animations as a demo for my project (related to Ansible), and I wanted to do that:

- automatically (as in, repeatable-and-I-will-never have-type-those-things-again)
- mimicking a typing human, with some random pauses and jitter

I could not find anything that would do it (or maybe I haven’t searched enough), so I ended up writing one. There is a lot of room for improvement, but if anyone’s keen to give it a try, it is called [asciinwriter](https://pypi.org/project/asciinwriter/) (the idea was to name it screenwriter but that package name was already taken).

Hope it is useful to others!

Cheers,  
Alex

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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:** [June 17, 2025, 9:05am UTC](https://discourse.asciinema.org/t/yet-another-tool-to-generate-input/1009/2 "2025-06-17T09:05:08Z")

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Cool!

Have you checked the others tools out there? [Integrations - asciinema docs](https://docs.asciinema.org/integrations/)

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**Author:** ![russoz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/discourse.asciinema.org/russoz/32/629_2.png) [@russoz](https://discourse.asciinema.org/u/russoz)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2025, 11:33pm UTC](https://discourse.asciinema.org/t/yet-another-tool-to-generate-input/1009/3 "2025-06-17T23:33:24Z")

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I hadn’t!! Thanks for the pointer - though it makes me feel like I invented … a wheel! 😁