asciimatics is a cross platform package to do curses-like operations, plus higher level APIs and widgets to create text UIs and ASCII art animations.

It brings a little joy to anyone who was programming in the 80s... Oh and it provides a single cross-platform Python class to do all the low-level console function you could ask for, including coloured and styled text, cursor positioning and manipulation, keyboard interaction, mouse input, console resizing, anti-aliased line drawing, sprites, animation, particle systems, and UI widgets.

A CLI tool that adds interactivity as well as flair to your shell scripts. Text entry in several forms, pick-and-choose lists, radio buttons, "I'm busy" spinners, spreadsheet-like tables, progress indicators, countup and countdown timers, CSS-like color schemes, and more.

In the standard Arch Linux package repo.

A Python module that makes it easy to build interactive text-mode interfaces. Question/answer (or stimulus/response) structure. Has different terminal widgets (text entry, password text entry, y/n, cursoring around with arrow keys, etc) for different kinds of questions.

A trivial collection of python scripts and database queries that miraculously shit out a fully functional, text-driven community bulletin board. Requires Python 3.4 and up for the server and the official TUI client (clients/urwid/). The API is simple and others are welcome to join the party at some point. Maybe I can abuse this somehow?

A simple terminal UI for docker and docker-compose. Written in Go, has a full text-based UI for monitoring and exploring your containers. Tries to make it easier to work with Docker and docker-compose. Keeps everything in a single terminal window with shortcuts for common Docker commands. You can add custom commands, too. Seems to also support mousing around.