After having a rather niche use case and struggling to find a python convertor for SVG to GIF svg2pdf.py was written. It is documented that some of the most common open source libraries aren't covering this conversion yet (for good reasons). reference.

This script takes an SVG file, opens it in selenium using a firefox driver, screenshots the svg file in live action, then uses PIL to combine all the saved png's to a gif. There is some smoothing of the GIF by slowing the SVG file to take more screenshots during the animations and then speeding up the GIF to be at the same speed as the original SVG. This can be improved upon.

Although this framework seems inefficent, there isn't a clean way to "activate" or iterate through animations in an SVG, which is why popular frameworks haven't built a solution to this problem yet.

python svg2gif.py <svg_file>

An example GIF and SVG can be seen in the example folder