> Meticulous records real user sessions from a web app and replays them against each commit to catch visual regressions.
>
> Full AI-readable docs index (project setup guide + every page as markdown): https://app.meticulous.ai/llms.txt

# Exporting generated tests

If you wish to re-use the Meticulous tests in another tool there are three main ways you can export tests from Meticulous:

  1. Via the Meticulous CLI by running [npx @alwaysmeticulous/cli download session](https://github.com/alwaysmeticulous/meticulous-sdk/blob/main/packages/cli/src/commands/download-session/download-session.command.ts#L34)
  2. Via the Meticulous SDK by calling [getOrFetchRecordedSessionData](https://github.com/alwaysmeticulous/meticulous-sdk/blob/main/packages/downloading-helpers/src/file-downloads/sessions.ts#L42)
  3. Via the Meticulous REST API at `https://app.meticulous.ai/api/` by calling `GET sessions/[id]` (with your API token as the bearer token)

Sessions (tests) are returned as JSON, and have two main components:

 1. Network requests and responses. These are stored in [HAR format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAR_(file_format)) and so can be used by most
 testing frameworks that support network stubbing, and are supported natively in Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge.
 2. User interactions. These are stored as JSON serialized UI events as per the [W3C UI Events spec](https://www.w3.org/TR/uievents/#events-uievent-types), and so are usable by most major testing
  frameworks, or by calling `dispatchEvent` in a browser.