ttyd - Share your terminal over the web

ttyd is a simple command-line tool for sharing terminal over the web.

Features

Built on top of Libwebsockets with libuv for speed
Fully-featured terminal based on Xterm.js with CJK and IME support
Graphical ZMODEM integration with lrzsz support
SSL support based on OpenSSL
Run any custom command with options
Basic authentication support and many other custom options
Cross platform: macOS, Linux, FreeBSD/OpenBSD, OpenWrt, Windows

❤ Special thanks to JetBrains for sponsoring the opensource license to this project.

Installation

Install on macOS

Install with homebrew:

brew install ttyd

Install on Linux

Binary version (recommended): download from the releases page.

Build from source (debian/ubuntu):

sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake git libjson-c-dev libwebsockets-dev
git clone https://github.com/tsl0922/ttyd.git
cd ttyd && mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make && make install

You may also need to compile/install libwebsockets from source if the libwebsockets-dev package is outdated.

Install on Gentoo: clone the repo and follow the directions here.

Install on Windows

Compile on Windows.

Install on OpenWrt

opkg install ttyd

Usage

Command-line Options

ttyd is a tool for sharing terminal over the web

USAGE:
    ttyd [options] <command> [<arguments...>]

VERSION:
    1.6.1

OPTIONS:
    -p, --port              Port to listen (default: 7681, use `0` for random port)
    -i, --interface         Network interface to bind (eg: eth0), or UNIX domain socket path (eg: /var/run/ttyd.sock)
    -c, --credential        Credential for Basic Authentication (format: username:password)
    -u, --uid               User id to run with
    -g, --gid               Group id to run with
    -s, --signal            Signal to send to the command when exit it (default: 1, SIGHUP)
    -a, --url-arg           Allow client to send command line arguments in URL (eg: http://localhost:7681?arg=foo&arg=bar)
    -R, --readonly          Do not allow clients to write to the TTY
    -t, --client-option     Send option to client (format: key=value), repeat to add more options
    -T, --terminal-type     Terminal type to report, default: xterm-256color
    -O, --check-origin      Do not allow websocket connection from different origin
    -m, --max-clients       Maximum clients to support (default: 0, no limit)
    -o, --once              Accept only one client and exit on disconnection
    -B, --browser           Open terminal with the default system browser
    -I, --index             Custom index.html path
    -b, --base-path         Expected base path for requests coming from a reverse proxy (eg: /mounted/here)
    -6, --ipv6              Enable IPv6 support
    -S, --ssl               Enable SSL
    -C, --ssl-cert          SSL certificate file path
    -K, --ssl-key           SSL key file path
    -A, --ssl-ca            SSL CA file path for client certificate verification
    -d, --debug             Set log level (default: 7)
    -v, --version           Print the version and exit
    -h, --help              Print this text and exit

Visit https://github.com/tsl0922/ttyd to get more information and report bugs.

Read the example usage on the wiki.

Browser Support

Modern browsers, See Browser Support.

Alternatives

Wetty: Node based web terminal (SSH/login)
GoTTY: Go based web terminal

WindsBridge/ttyd