asciinema-automation is a Python package which provides a small CLI utility to automate asciinema recordings. The only dependencies are asciinema and Pexpect.

Recording is made easier by:

• making the live recording for you, to get the perfect take in one go (no more missed keys!),
• while looking not too robotic by adding Gaussian delay between keystrokes.

One specificity of this package is that

• it makes automated recording as reproducible and robust as possible. In particular, there is no need to add a manually set waiting time between commands to wait for previous outputs.

To that end, you can write the commands you wish to showcase in a text file, and using comment lines starting by #$ (see examples folder and example), you can specify the expected output of each command, and/or change the configuration of the automated recording on-the-fly.

This example is generated reading with asciinema-automation a script that calls asciinema-automation which reads the hello_world.sh example in this repository 🙃

Numerous examples can also be found here.

You can use pip to install:

python3 -m pip install asciinema-automation

Or you can install it directly using this GitHub repository. In this case, you need to call git clone to recover the source code of this repository

git clone https://github.com/PierreMarchand20/asciinema_automation.git

and then call pip in your local folder of this repository to install this package and its dependencies

pip3 install .

This repository is inspired by asciiscript, which is not maintained any more. I first made a fork, but being not very familiar with go, I preferred to rewrite everything in python.