termitty 0.1.0

A Selenium-inspired Python framework for terminal and SSH automation

Termitty 🐜

A powerful, Selenium-inspired Python framework for terminal and SSH automation.

What is Termitty?

Termitty brings the elegance and simplicity of Selenium WebDriver to the world of terminal automation. Just as Selenium revolutionized web browser automation, Termitty transforms how developers interact with command-line interfaces programmatically.

🆚 Quick Comparison

Feature	Termitty	Fabric	Paramiko	Pexpect	Ansible
Selenium-like API	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Terminal Emulation	✅ Full	❌	❌	⚠️ Basic	❌
Session Recording	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
AI-Ready	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Interactive Shell	✅	⚠️	⚠️	✅	❌

→ See detailed comparison for more information

✨ Key Features

🎯 Intuitive Selenium-like API

# Familiar patterns for developers who've used Selenium
session = TermittySession()
session.connect('server.com', username='user', key_file='~/.ssh/id_rsa')
session.wait_until(OutputContains('Ready'))

🖥️ Advanced Terminal Emulation

• Full ANSI escape code support
• Virtual terminal with screen buffer management
• Real-time terminal state tracking
• Menu and UI element detection

⏱️ Smart Waiting & Pattern Matching

# Wait for specific conditions
session.wait_until(OutputContains('Task completed'), timeout=30)
session.wait_until(PromptReady('$ '))
session.wait_until(OutputMatches(r'Status: \d+%'))

🔄 Interactive Shell Sessions

# Handle interactive applications with ease
with session.interactive_shell() as shell:
    shell.send_line('vim config.txt')
    shell.wait_for_text('INSERT')
    shell.send_keys('Hello World')
    shell.send_key(Keys.ESCAPE)
    shell.send_line(':wq')

📹 Session Recording & Playback

# Record your terminal sessions
session.start_recording('demo.json')
# ... perform actions ...
recording = session.stop_recording()

# Playback later
player = Player('demo.json')
player.play(speed=2.0)

⚡ Parallel Execution

# Execute commands across multiple servers
hosts = ['server1.com', 'server2.com', 'server3.com']
pool = ConnectionPool(hosts, username='user', key_file='~/.ssh/id_rsa')

results = pool.execute_on_all('apt update && apt upgrade -y', 
                              strategy='rolling',
                              batch_size=2)

🎨 Terminal UI Navigation

# Navigate terminal UIs programmatically
menu_items = session.terminal.find_menu_items()
session.terminal.click_menu_item('Settings')

📦 Installation

pip install termitty

🚀 Quick Start

Basic Command Execution

from termitty import TermittySession

# Connect to a server
session = TermittySession()
session.connect('example.com', username='user', password='pass')

# Execute commands
result = session.execute('ls -la')
print(result.output)

# Use context managers for directory changes
with session.cd('/var/log'):
    logs = session.execute('tail -n 20 syslog')
    print(logs.output)

Interactive Application Handling

# Handle password prompts
session.execute('sudo apt update')
session.wait_until(OutputContains('[sudo] password'))
session.send_line('password', secure=True)

# Navigate interactive installers
session.execute('./install.sh')
session.wait_until(OutputContains('Do you accept? [y/N]'))
session.send_line('y')

Terminal Emulation

# Access the virtual terminal
terminal = session.terminal

# Get screen content
screen_text = terminal.get_screen_text()
print(screen_text)

# Find text on screen
if terminal.find_text('Error'):
    print("Error found at:", terminal.cursor_position)

# Take snapshots
snapshot = terminal.snapshot()

📚 Documentation

For comprehensive documentation, visit our docs folder or check out these guides:

• Getting Started Guide
• API Reference
• Examples
• Architecture
• AI Integration Guide
• Comparison with Alternatives
• Publishing Guide

🏗️ Architecture

Termitty is built with a modular architecture:

• Session Layer: High-level API for SSH connections and command execution
• Terminal Emulator: Full VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
• Interactive Shell: Real-time interaction with persistent shell sessions
• Recording System: Capture and replay terminal sessions
• Parallel Executor: Efficient multi-host command execution

See our Architecture Documentation for detailed information.

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see our Contributing Guide for details.

📄 License

Termitty is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.

🛣️ Roadmap

• Async/await support for all operations
• File transfer capabilities (SCP/SFTP)
• Built-in task templates for common operations
• Terminal session sharing and collaboration
• Web-based session viewer
• Plugin system for custom extensions

💡 Use Cases

• DevOps Automation: Automate server provisioning and configuration
• Testing: Create robust tests for CLI applications
• Monitoring: Build intelligent monitoring scripts that react to terminal output
• Documentation: Record terminal sessions for tutorials and documentation
• Deployment: Orchestrate complex multi-server deployments
• AI Agents: Enable LLMs and coding assistants to control terminals → Learn more

🙏 Acknowledgments

This project is inspired by the elegance of Selenium WebDriver and the need for better terminal automation tools in the DevOps/SRE space.

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Ready to automate your terminal workflows? Check out our examples to get started!