I was linked http://maxogden.com/scraping-with-node.html the other day and it looked nice, I wanted to play with it.

This is basically the tutorial put together in a module, I plan on expanding it a bit to do the following things:

Fetch a list of URLs to crawl from a main server.
Cache images it fetches locally and display a random image from those instead of going online every time
Possibly scale down the bigger images so you just get something fun in the terminal.
Perhaps add an option to not always display an image.

How to use

Run random-image and you will see a random 256-color image in your terminal.

Example