QR code generator for text terminals
- Copyright (C) 2014-2017 SATOH Fumiyasu @ OSS Technology Corp., Japan
- License: MIT License
- Development home: https://github.com/fumiyas/qrc
- Author's home: https://fumiyas.github.io/
What's this?
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.
Use case
You can transfer data to smartphones with a QR code reader application
from your terminal.
Usage
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:foobar@example.jp
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.
Download
Binary files are here for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows:
Build from source codes
If you have Go language environment, try the following:
$ go get github.com/fumiyas/qrc/cmd/qrc
TODO
- Add the following options:
--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
- Timeout for tty.GetDeviceAttributes1()
Contributors
- Hayaki Saito (@saitoha)
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