#!/usr/bin/env bashĬookies=~/Documents/workspace/code/nytcrossword/cookies.txt Also tried the New Yorker which should work in theory but I can't figure out how they generate their puzzle IDs which seem to be a random hex number. Same thing for Jonesin' which looks like it generates the PDF on the fly in JavaScript. The daily Washington Post (aka LA Times) is causing trouble because it doesn't have an actual generated PDF that I can see.

Slightly modified version for downloading the NYT PDF as well as the daily Newsday and weekly Washington Post crosswords. Maybe at some point I'll make a tool for this instead of a hastily-assembled script. That runs the script every day at 11:20pm – you can adjust the numbers to change the time. Run crontab -e and add this line to the bottom of your cron file: 20 23 * * * /opt/nytcrossword/today.sh Now, running today.sh manually will download today's crossword, but to get it to automatically run every day, we'll need a cron job. (If you use Firefox, this plugin looks like it does the same thing.) I use this Chrome extension to easily retrieve my cookies.txt file. You'll also need to login to in your web browser, and then copy your cookies into /opt/nytcrossword/cookies.txt in Netscape cookie format. you can jq from their website and probably curl via Cygwin? No clue good luck (you're also gonna need to get bash and cron, probably via Cygwin, since Windows doesn't have those either). sudo apt install curl jq, brew install curl jq, etc. If you're on a Linux/Mac, you can probably get these with your package manager e.g. This requires that you have curl and jq installed. You'll want to change the dest variable to wherever you want your crossword files saved. Puzzid=`curl -b '$cookies' '' | jq '.results.puzzle_id'` Here's the main script ( /opt/nytcrossword/today.sh): #!/usr/bin/env bash On my machine, I chose to install this in /opt/nytcrossword. Fair warning: this requires some technical knowhow to set up, and that goes triple if you're trying to do it on Windows. I don't know if anyone is interested, but I built myself a little script to automatically download the Across Lite file for the daily NYT crossword, and figured I'd share it.

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