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Top 23 Python terminal-based Projects
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InfluxDB
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terminaltexteffects
TerminalTextEffects (TTE) is a terminal visual effects engine, application, and Python library.
Project mention: Asciinema CLI 3.0 rewritten in Rust, adds live streaming, upgrades file format | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-15Asciinema is awesome. I use it to capture all of the demos for TerminalTextEffects. Their Asciinema GIF Generator tool (AGG) produces high quality terminal recording GIFs. This is the best solution I've found for producing short terminal recordings that can be shared in a README/docs as seen in the TerminalTextEffects repo/docs.
https://docs.asciinema.org/manual/agg/
https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects
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awesome-cli-apps-in-a-csv
The largest Awesome Curated list of command line programs (CLI/TUI) with source data organized into CSV files
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TUIFIManager
A cross-platform terminal-based termux-oriented file manager (and component), meant to be used with a Uni-Curses project or as is.
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py_cui
A python library for intuitively creating CUI/TUI interfaces with widgets, inspired by gocui.
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Project mention: Stop Using 'crontab -e': Meet Cronboard, the TUI That Simplifies Scheduled Tasks | dev.to | 2025-11-11
View the Project on GitHub
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pygamelib
A (not so) small python library for console (as in terminal) game development. It is developed as a framework to help learn development and python in an entertaining way.
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bookcut
Command Line Interface tool to download, organise and search free ebooks from your terminal in a moment.
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Project mention: Ask HN: How do you find early stage startups to join | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-22
Adding to this, the YC jobs portal is also on: https://www.workatastartup.com/
There are also plenty of early stage startup job offers on the Ask HN: Who is hiring threads (here’s the latest one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44757794)
The above can be hard to navigate, but there are some recommended tools in there that scrape the listings and make them searchable
Lastly, you can also try this CLI tool that uses AI to match your resume and preferences to job listings scraped from HN and a couple of other sources: https://github.com/nicobrenner/commandjobs
Oh, and you can also attend startup meetups, a lot of times you can meet the founders in person and they might be looking to hire (that’s how I first got into an early YC company)
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source terminal-based projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | toolong | 3,774 |
| 2 | terminaltexteffects | 3,678 |
| 3 | frogmouth | 2,964 |
| 4 | dooit | 2,738 |
| 5 | awesome-cli-apps-in-a-csv | 2,190 |
| 6 | smassh | 1,773 |
| 7 | TUIFIManager | 792 |
| 8 | py_cui | 782 |
| 9 | cronboard | 601 |
| 10 | pydoro | 577 |
| 11 | spotui | 555 |
| 12 | cmdpxl | 531 |
| 13 | dashing | 503 |
| 14 | baca | 451 |
| 15 | van-gonography | 438 |
| 16 | kanban-python | 320 |
| 17 | colorpedia | 299 |
| 18 | hexabyte | 283 |
| 19 | term-image | 261 |
| 20 | pygamelib | 243 |
| 21 | sty | 215 |
| 22 | bookcut | 193 |
| 23 | commandjobs | 167 |
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