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Over a year ago, I wrote a python module called ansi2html that takes colored ansi as input and produces colored, formatted html.

With it you can do something like the following:

$ ls --color=always | ansi2html > directory.html
$ sudo tail /var/log/messages | ccze -A | ansi2html > logs.html

Much more recently I discovered taskwarrior, a command line todo list manager that rocks. It features the ability to produce burndown charts of your todos over time.

I use the following in a cronjob to produce an online version of my burndown chart.

$ task burndown | ansi2html | ssh me@web "cat > ~/static/burndown.html"

My regularly-updated chart is hosted on threebean.org.

If you come up with any neat uses for ansi2html, please let me know. I'd love to hear about them.