Asciinema record-to-disk and playback-from-disk Python programs. Useful with asciinema v0.9.8 that doesn't have these functions natively.

asciiplayer.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
from sys import stdout, argv
import pickle
from time import sleep

with open(argv[1], 'rb') as f:
    asciicast = pickle.load(f)

pos = 0
timing = asciicast.stdout.timing.split(b'\n')
for t in timing:
    wait, length = t.split()                     # Decode frame data
    wait, length = float(wait), int(length)
    data = asciicast.stdout.data[pos:pos+length] # Get frame data
    sleep(wait)                                  # Wait for length of the frame
    stdout.buffer.write(data)                    # Print the data
    stdout.buffer.flush()                        # Don't forget to flush stdout
    pos+=length                                  # Update position

asciirec.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
from asciinema.commands.record import RecordCommand
from asciinema.config import Config
import pickle, time, sys

class ModifiedRecordCommand(RecordCommand):
    def _record_asciicast(self):
        asciicast = RecordCommand._record_asciicast(self)
        if self.confirmator.confirm("~ Do you want to save it to disk? [Y/n] "):
            filename = time.strftime("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S.asciicast")
            with open(filename, 'wb') as fileobj:
                pickle.dump(asciicast, fileobj)
            print("~ Saved asciicast as {}".format(filename))
        return asciicast

if __name__ == '__main__':
    cmd = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else None
    config = Config()
    ModifiedRecordCommand(config.api_url, config.api_token, cmd, None, False).execute()