NAME

ql-demos - Terminal Quake Live demo browser

SYNOPSIS

curl -LO https://marcp.xyz/files/ql-demos.tar.gz
tar xzf ql-demos.tar.gz
cd ql-demos
./setup.sh
ql-demos

DESCRIPTION

Terminal demo browser. Scoreboard preview, recent aim accuracy average deltas, and more

OPTIONS

j / k

move selection down / up

g / G

first / last

J / K

scroll preview

ctrl-d / ctrl-u

half-page down / up

s / S

cycle sort field forward / backward (date, map, opponent)

R

toggle sort direction (asc / desc)

m / M

cycle game-mode filter (all, Duel, FFA, iFFA, CA, TDM, RACE, FT)

b

toggle bot games

i

full demo metadata (pager)

p

play in Quake Live (via Steam)

d

delete (confirms first)

/

search; esc to exit search

q

quit

NOTES

GPLv3. See gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0

EXAMPLES

  ⚔  Duel  on  campgrounds
  2026.05.21 11:36:32 UTC
  ⏱ 10:00   🎮 VQL

  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  pflued-air                                             Major
  15                                                           6
                          ⚠ forfeited                         

                          ── Combat ──                        
  15/6                   Kills / Deaths                   6/15
  38% ─                     Accuracy                       53%
  3449                       Damage                       2891

                          ── Items ──                         
  15                     Red Armor (RA)                      6
  12                   Yellow Armor (YA)                     6
  0                     Green Armor (GA)                     0
  12                    Mega Health (MH)                     5

                         ── Weapons ──                        
                      Rocket Launcher (RL)                    
  1181       ░░░░░░░░░░░██████ │ ████▎░░░░░░░░░░░░         819
  36% ▼3                                                   25%
                       Lightning Gun (LG)                     
  1668       ░░░░░░░░░░▋██████ │ █████████▎░░░░░░░         954
  39% ▲1                                                   55%
                          Railgun (RG)                        
  560        ░░░░░░░▊█████████ │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░           0
  58% ▲6                                                    0%
                        Machinegun (MG)                       
  20         ░░░░░░░░░░░██████ │ █████████████▎░░░         710
  36% ▲17                                                  78%
                        Plasma Gun (PG)                       
  20         ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░▌█ │ ████▎░░░░░░░░░░░░         408
  9% ▲2                                                    25%

SEE ALSO

icinga-tui(1), quake recordings