qrterm is a simple but powerful tool to generate and simultaneously display QR-Codes inside your favorite ANSI-compatible Terminal. I came up with the idea during a project which required generation of simple QR-Codes and was wondering why the only other alternative was written in nodejs. It works on Windows, macOS and Linux platforms.

• generates QR-Codes for simple strings and has a lot of subcommands for specific standardized payloads (wifi, mail, sms, mms, geo, phone, skype, whatsapp, url, bookmark and bitcoin)
• can output directly to the terminal or alternatively an image file (.png, .bmp and .jpg)
• can generate autocompletion files for your favorite shell (Bash, Zsh, fish and PowerShell!)
• perfect if you want to quickly and seamlessly transfer some data to your own or someone else's smartphone
• lean (about 1.9 Mb on disk), portable cli tool without any external dependencies or runtimes

Currently there are two ways to get qrterm:

Support for installing via brew and scoop is pending

You must have the Rust toolchain installed. For installation instructions please visit rustup.rs.

cargo install --git https://github.com/lukasreuter/qrterm

Just select the correct zip for your platform from the Release page on the github repository

• expand help texts for the subcommands
• Add error texts for some exit branches (mostly file output and qrcode gen)
• implement even more types of qr payloads (contact card, giro payment, calendar event)
• write unit tests for the payloads
• write integration tests for edge case inputs

Because it's a new, interesting language that i wanted to dig into :) Also it was easier to get started due to kennytm's excellent qrcode crate and Steven Allen's cross-platform capable term crate that are used for generating and drawing the codes respectively. Another important motivation was the need for a lean and fast tool that can work with minimal external dependencies, so other high-level languages and frameworks were considered out of the scope for a simple command-line tool.