QR code generator for text terminals (ASCII art, Sixel)
This program generates QR codes in
ASCII art or
Sixel format for
text terminals, e.g., console, xterm (with -ti 340
option to enable Sixel),
mlterm,
Windows command prompt and so on.
You can transfer data to smartphones with a QR code reader application from your terminal.
qrc
program takes a text from command-line argument or standard
input (if no command-line argument) and encodes it to a QR code.
$ qrc --help
Usage: qrc [OPTIONS] [TEXT]
Options:
-h, --help
Show this help message
-i, --invert
Invert color
Text examples:
http://www.example.jp/
MAILTO:[email protected]
WIFI:S:myssid;T:WPA;P:pass123;;
$ qrc https://fumiyas.github.io/
...
$ qrc 'WIFI:S:Our-ssid;T:WPA;P:secret;;'
...
You can get a QR code in Sixel graphics if the standard output is a terminal and it supports Sixel.
Binary files are here for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows:
If you have Go language environment, try the following:
$ go get github.com/fumiyas/qrc/cmd/qrc
--format <aa|sixel>
--aa-color-scheme <ansi|windows>
--foreground-color R:G:B
--background-color R:G:B
--margin-color R:G:B
--margin-size N
--input-encoding E