vcr doesn't record requests used within a library?

I am using github3, and want to test it. This is what I used:

  1 import os
  2 
  3 import vcr
  4 import github3
  5 
  6 @vcr.use_cassette('github.yaml')
  7 def test_github3():
  8     gh = github3.GitHub(token=os.environ.get('GH_TOKEN'))
  9     coala = gh.organization('coala')

when I run this test, the cassete is not recorded

github3 uses a GitHubSession session which inherits from requests.Session internally

[DanielLevy0705]

I’m using VCR and i’m having a similar problem as described here. I’m using zeep SOAP client, with requests.Session for transport, and seems like it doesn’t intercept HTTP requests. On the other hand I’m using requests.Session() also for REST HTTP requests and it seems to intercept and record these, is there any solution?

[rfadams]

@meetmangukiya @georgedorn @IvanMalison I had a similar issue, but with a “client” we developed internally that also uses the “requests” library. I spent a while trying to diagnose the issue to no avail. What was most frustrating is that since it is an internal client, it is used in another codebase as well and VCRpy was working great over there.

Finally, I had the idea to downgrade VCRpy in the new codebase to the same version as used in the old codebase and it worked! Here is a screenshot (below) showing a failing test b/c it bypasses VCRpy, I uninstall VCRpy==1.11.1, and re-install VCRpy==1.11.0 - then the test passes!

I tried various different configs and methods of using VCRpy (decorator vs with-context) all to no avail, it just wouldn’t see the http requests made by the “requests” lib inside the API client. Sorry I don’t have more help.