Snippet to read a vcr cassette binary body

read_vcrpy_binary_body.py

import json
import gzip
import base64
import StringIO

from vcr.serialize import deserialize
from vcr.serializers import yamlserializer

path = '../cassettes/api-InstagramAPITestCase-test_media.yml'

with open(path, 'r') as fh: 
    deserialized = deserialize(fh.read(), yamlserializer)
    body_string = deserialized[1][0]['body']['string']
    stio = StringIO.StringIO(body_string)
    fio = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=stio)
    print(json.load(fio))

A ruby version to achieve the same:

require 'yaml'
path = 'spec/vcr_cassettes/cassette.yml'
deserialized = YAML.load_file(path)
body_string = deserialized['http_interactions'][0]['response']['body']['string']
puts body_string