giphy-cli

A CLI, published as Docker image and .NET Global tool, to search for a gif on Giphy and optionally open the link in the browser or copy the link or markdown to the clipboard.

Was featured in a presentation about .NET interactive notebooks at .NET Conf 2020: https://youtu.be/938jBJ-tK3c?t=1025

There is an example notebook included dotnet-interactive-notebook-sample.ipynb

Comments, ideas, bug reports and PR are welcome here.

Docker

You can run this CLI via Docker. This will output markdown and a link to giphy.com.

Published version on Docker Hub:

docker run --rm -it daviddesloovere/giphy-cli:latest "lolcats"

Latest on GitHub:

docker run --rm -it ghcr.io/daviddesloovere/giphy-cli:latest "lolcats"

.NET global tool

Head over to GiphyCli on NuGet or continue reading:

You'll need the .NET 6 runtime or newer.

Install the Giphy CLI with this command:

> dotnet tool install --global GiphyCli

Update the Giphy CLI with this command:

> dotnet tool update --global Giphycli

To search for a gif, simply use

> giphy lolcats

Usage

> giphy cheeseburger
> giphy "awesome cheeseburger"

Output markdown only, great for using in notebooks.

> giphy cheeseburger -m
> giphy cheeseburger --markdown

Giphy CLI now an includes interactive prompt.

Have markdown copied to clipboard et voila.

Features

• Interactive prompt: Open giphy.com URL, copy .gif deeplink or copy markdown to clipboard
• Preview image in iTerm2 (PR by https://github.com/slang25)