I get it that it might not be scalable to manually collect all of the API responses but I have used ExVCR in the past and ended up… manually collecting all the API responses that I needed for tests. The API had slight changes – 3 times in a single year – but it was enough to piss us off because we shipped non-working features in production due to outdated cassettes.
So we rolled up our sleeves and what do you know, something like 70 API responses took 3 people 5-6 work days (and we were not doing only that, it was just an ongoing effort). Not a huge deal, though granted it’s annoying to do.
So I am with @hst337 here – take control of this.
Of course nobody is stopping you scripting this somewhat. I was able to devise a small text file format a while ago (next time I needed something like this) and just have a bash/zsh script loop over the lines inside the file and do curl requests and record the responses. Took me 80% the way there (though it was super specific and was not generalizable).
