Claude was happy to write code for me when I prompted, "If it is feasible, please write a google apps project which will work with google street view, capturing street view images between two points which the user chooses, and exporting the images as a video journey between the two places on the map similar to what is seen by a dashcam on a car. If not feasible, please suggest alternatives."
But the code requires a project with billing enabled, apparently it does not work with the demo api key provided at https://developers.google.com/maps/demo-key
So, pivoted to making screenshots of the google.com/maps page open in street-view instead - tested using SikuliX IDE 2.0.5 from https://github.com/oculix-org/SikuliX1/releases/download/v2.0.5/sikulixide-2.0.5-linux.jar
Points to note - the delay needs to be more than 5 seconds for me, the images load quite slowly. Alt+Shift+C to abort the SikuliX task.
ffmpeg -framerate 1 -i frame_%04d.png -vf "scale=trunc(iw/2)*2:trunc(ih/2)*2,minterpolate=fps=10:mi_mode=blend" -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p journey.mp4
for frame blending, but a timelapse style with more frames per second would probably be needed for longer journeys. The scaling is because the libx264 codec needs even numbered pixel counts for width and height, which may not be guaranteed when choosing a rectangle onscreen.
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