Modern clients are produced by a modern code generator, combined with hand-crafted functionality for some services.

The libraries in this repo are simple REST clients. These clients connect to HTTP/JSON REST endpoints and are automatically generated from service discovery documents. They support most API functionality, but their class interfaces are sometimes awkward.

Besides that ffscreencast can act as an ffmpeg command generator. Every available option can also just show the corresponding ffmpeg command instead of executing it. Non-ffmpeg commands, such as how the camera resolution is pulled and others can also be shown instead of being executed.

So transcriptor aims to do less, and impose the bare minimum of cognitive load needed to convert a REPL interaction into a test. The entire API is four functions:

You can find code to generate test fixtures