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passy/givegif

GIFs on the command line
Source code at GitHub null
passy/givegif.json
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  "language": "Haskell",
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  "updatedAt": "2025-11-07T06:01:39Z",
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givegif

Section titled “givegif”

Build Status

Find and display GIFs from the command line.

Displaying the GIF inline requires iTerm >=2.9.

![Power by Giphy]!(media/giphypowered.png)

Demo

Section titled “Demo”

Usage

Section titled “Usage”
Usage: givegif [-n|--no-preview] ([-s|--search ARG] | [-t|--translate ARG] |
               [RANDOM_TAG])
  Find GIFs on the command line.


Available options:
  -h,--help                Show this help text
  -n,--no-preview          Don't render an inline image preview.
  -s,--search ARG          Use search to find a matching GIF.
  -t,--translate ARG       Use translate to find a matching GIF.
  -V,--version             Show version information

Installation

Section titled “Installation”

Homebrew

Section titled “Homebrew”
Terminal window
brew tap passy/givegif
brew install givegif

Binaries

Section titled “Binaries”

Check out the latest releases for precompiled binaries.

Stack

Section titled “Stack”

Alternatively, feel free to build it yourself with stack.

Terminal window
$ stack install givegif
$ givegif -V
givegif 1.0.3.0

Known Issues

Section titled “Known Issues”

Even though I tried to make this work with screen/tmux, it still glitches out every now and then. If you can figure out why, please let me know.

License

Section titled “License”

BSD-3