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## xterm-addon-serialize
An addon for [xterm.js](https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js) that enables xterm.js to serialize a terminal framebuffer into string or html. This addon requires xterm.js v4+.
⚠️ This is an experimental addon that is still under construction ⚠️
### Install
```bash
npm install --save xterm-addon-serialize
```
### Usage
```ts
import { Terminal } from "xterm";
import { SerializeAddon } from "xterm-addon-serialize";
const terminal = new Terminal();
const serializeAddon = new SerializeAddon();
terminal.loadAddon(serializeAddon);
terminal.write("something...", () => {
console.log(serializeAddon.serialize());
});
```
See the full [API](https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/blob/master/addons/xterm-addon-serialize/typings/xterm-addon-serialize.d.ts) for more advanced usage.
### Benchmark
⚠️ Ensure you have `lolcat`, `hexdump` programs installed in your computer
```shell
$ git clone https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js.git
$ cd xterm.js
$ yarn
$ cd addons/xterm-addon-serialize
$ yarn benchmark && yarn benchmark-baseline
$ # change some code in `xterm-addon-serialize`
$ yarn benchmark-eval
```