Terminal User Interface

Terminal UI renders your Drupal site as a beautifully formatted terminal-style plain text page when viewed with curl, complete with logo, about text, social links, and a feed of your latest posts.

It is built for sites that follow a structured layout around a single content type - such as blogs, personal sites, and portfolios - so that command-line users get a polished, first-class reading experience instead of raw HTML.

Features

The Terminal UI module detects when your homepage is requested with the curl command-line tool and, in that case only, replaces the normal HTML response with a neatly formatted plain text page. Regular visitors in a web browser see your site exactly as before.
What enabling this module gives you:

• ANSI-styled terminal output - colors, bold/dim text, box-drawing borders, and OSC 8 hyperlinks that are clickable in modern terminals.
• A customizable header with your choice of ASCII logo (default Drupal logo, Druplicon, or a fully custom design) plus a token-powered text block for things like your site name and URL.
• An About box - short bio or intro text rendered in one of four box styles (solid, dotted, dashed, or double), with optional title and maximum width (ANSI-aware word wrapping keeps styled text aligned).
• A Social links box - clickable links to your profiles (LinkedIn, GitHub, X, etc.) rendered as OSC 8 hyperlinks. The About and Social boxes can be displayed side-by-side.
• A content feed - the footer lists the five most recent published posts from a content type you choose, each with publish date, tags, a short summary, and a link to the post.
• ANSI tokens - site-wide token types ([terminal_ui_text_color:*], [terminal_ui_style:*], etc.) let you sprinkle colors and styles into any configured text field.
• A live preview - the settings form shows exactly what curl will display as you edit.

When would you use it? If you have a blog or portfolio and want to give command-line users a slick curl https://yoursite.com/ experience. It also makes your homepage fun to share with the developer crowd, since the terminal-style output is a distinctive, low-effort way to show off your content.

Post-Installation

The module installs without default content, so head straight to the configuration page to build your terminal view:

1. Visit Configuration → User interface → Terminal UI (at /admin/config/user-interface/terminal_ui). You will need the Administer Terminal UI permission, which is granted to the administrator role by default.
2. Header: choose a logo (Default, Druplicon, or Custom), optionally a custom header style, and add text elements beside the logo (for example [site:name] and [site:base-url]). Tokens are supported throughout.
3. Body: write your About text, pick a box style/title/width, and add social links. Toggle "Display About and Social side-by-side" if you prefer that layout.
4. Footer: check "Show Content Feed?", then select the content type the feed should pull from (for example your "Blog" content type).
5. Save and check the live preview at the bottom of the form.

To test it, open a terminal and run:

curl https://yourdomain.com/

You should see your styled page. There is nothing to set up for regular visitors: the module only intercepts requests whose User-Agent contains curl, so browsers, search engines, and other tools are completely unaffected.

Additional Requirements

• Drupal core 11.x.
• Token module — a required dependency (https://www.drupal.org/project/token), used to replace tokens like [site:name] in your configured text.