What problem does it solve?
Quickly finding, previewing, downloading, and extracting meaningful stills or sheet summaries from online GIF collections is tedious when done manually; gifgrep streamlines that workflow from the command line or TUI so you can prepare GIFs for documentation, PRs, or chat sharing fast.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Search across providers: Query Tenor or Giphy (auto selection available) to discover relevant GIFs.
- Interactive browsing: Launch a TUI to preview results and select items for download or extraction.
- Download and extract: Save GIFs to Downloads, reveal them in Finder, extract single stills or generate grid sheets for quick review or embedding.
- Machine-friendly output: Emit JSON arrays or pipe-friendly fields for automation and scripting; supports thumbnail previews and format selection.
- Use Case: Use gifgrep to find a short clip for a documentation screenshot, extract a still at a specific timestamp, and include the sheet image in a release note.
Quick Start
Run gifgrep to search for five cat GIFs, preview results in the TUI, and download the top selection to your Downloads folder.