gtanner/qrcode-terminal

QRCodes in your terminal, cause thats hot.

JavaScript

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updated Jan 28, 2022

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QRCode Terminal Edition Build Status

Going where no QRCode has gone before.

Basic Example

Node Library

Install

Can be installed with:

$ npm install qrcode-terminal

and used:

var qrcode = require('qrcode-terminal');

Usage

To display some data to the terminal just call:

qrcode.generate('This will be a QRCode, eh!');

You can even specify the error level (default is 'L'):

qrcode.setErrorLevel('Q');
qrcode.generate('This will be a QRCode with error level Q!');

If you don't want to display to the terminal but just want to string you can provide a callback:

qrcode.generate('http://github.com', function (qrcode) {
    console.log(qrcode);
});

If you want to display small output, provide opts with small:

qrcode.generate('This will be a small QRCode, eh!', {small: true});

qrcode.generate('This will be a small QRCode, eh!', {small: true}, function (qrcode) {
    console.log(qrcode)
});

Command-Line

Install

$ npm install -g qrcode-terminal

Usage

$ qrcode-terminal --help
$ qrcode-terminal 'http://github.com'
$ echo 'http://github.com' | qrcode-terminal

Support

  • OS X
  • Linux
  • Windows

Server-side

node-qrcode is a popular server-side QRCode generator that renders to a canvas object.

Developing

To setup the development envrionment run npm install

To run tests run npm test

Contributers

Gord Tanner <[email protected]>
Micheal Brooks <[email protected]>

Project health

Overall

2.1/10

Maintained

0/10

Code review

1/10
OpenSSF Scorecard

Latest release

0.12.0 · Mar 20, 2018

Releases this year

0

Significant stargazers

Simon Lydell

576 followers · starred Jul 2020

Jesse Talavera

276 followers · starred Jul 2026

weishu

8,696 followers · starred May 2026

Hassan Khan

206 followers · starred Feb 2026

gtanner/qrcode-terminal

QRCodes in your terminal, cause thats hot.

JavaScript

1,352

50 commits

updated Jan 28, 2022

See the code

README

QRCode Terminal Edition Build Status

Going where no QRCode has gone before.

Basic Example

Node Library

Install

Can be installed with:

$ npm install qrcode-terminal

and used:

var qrcode = require('qrcode-terminal');

Usage

To display some data to the terminal just call:

qrcode.generate('This will be a QRCode, eh!');

You can even specify the error level (default is 'L'):

qrcode.setErrorLevel('Q');
qrcode.generate('This will be a QRCode with error level Q!');

If you don't want to display to the terminal but just want to string you can provide a callback:

qrcode.generate('http://github.com', function (qrcode) {
    console.log(qrcode);
});

If you want to display small output, provide opts with small:

qrcode.generate('This will be a small QRCode, eh!', {small: true});

qrcode.generate('This will be a small QRCode, eh!', {small: true}, function (qrcode) {
    console.log(qrcode)
});

Command-Line

Install

$ npm install -g qrcode-terminal

Usage

$ qrcode-terminal --help
$ qrcode-terminal 'http://github.com'
$ echo 'http://github.com' | qrcode-terminal

Support

  • OS X
  • Linux
  • Windows

Server-side

node-qrcode is a popular server-side QRCode generator that renders to a canvas object.

Developing

To setup the development envrionment run npm install

To run tests run npm test

Contributers

Gord Tanner <[email protected]>
Micheal Brooks <[email protected]>

Project health

Overall

2.1/10

Maintained

0/10

Code review

1/10
OpenSSF Scorecard

Latest release

0.12.0 · Mar 20, 2018

Releases this year

0

Significant stargazers

Simon Lydell

576 followers · starred Jul 2020

Jesse Talavera

276 followers · starred Jul 2026

weishu

8,696 followers · starred May 2026

Hassan Khan

206 followers · starred Feb 2026