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…to return a list of candidate URLs. xword_dl.py now looks to see if it was passed a candidate URL list, and if so, it attempts to find a puzzle at any of the candidate URLs.
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Added date search for Vox. To accomplish this, enhanced find_by_date to return a list of candidate URLs. xword_dl.py now looks to see if it was passed a candidate URL list, and if so, it attempts to find a puzzle at any of the candidate URLs.
For example, in the case of Vox, all of the puzzle URLs contain an author prefix and a numeric suffix. These prefixes and suffixes are limited in possibility. Therefore, if we build a list of all the possible combinations, it's possible to derive the correct puzzle url.
Caveats: This relies on the website being consistent in how they build these puzzle IDs. Vox is hilariously bad at this (or maybe intentionally doing it)
Examples:
The puzzle on 2024-10-29 incorrectly used 20241028 as its date in the url.
The puzzles between 2020-04-10 and 2020-04-24 insert an extra 0 in the date string.
For the vast majority of puzzles, this script will work, but it is not flawless.