nyt_xword_downloader
Install v0.1.5
New York Time X-Word Downloader
CLI utility for bulk downloading NYT X-Word PDFs
Usage
Usage: nyt_xword_downloader [OPTIONS] --token <TOKEN> [START] [END] Arguments: [START] [END] Options: -t, --token <TOKEN> -d, --dest <DEST> -s, --skip-sunday -h, --help Print help
Arguments
START/END
These positional arguments should be formatted <full-year>-<2digit-month>-<2digit-day> and
represent an inclusive range. That means 2024-01-01 2024-12-31 would be all of the days in
the year 2024.
TOKEN
If not provided with the instructions below, it will try and use the
rookie crate to look it up from your browser.
This is the NYT-S cookie from a valid login to the new york times puzzle archive. You can find
your token by logging into The NYT website in any
browser and then opening the developer console. Instructions for Firefox are provided below but you
should be able to follow a similar flow in any major browser.
Firefox
Navigate to the Storage tab and then the Cookies expand on the left, under the
https://www.nytimes.com entry you should see a value NYT-S, click that then on the right panel
that opens, right click on the top line and select Copy
--skip-sunday/-s
The Sunday puzzle is a much larger PDF and can be a pain to do by hand, this will skip all sundays through the time period provided.
DEST
The destination to store the PDFs (defaulting to the current working directory). The directory structure will be
<root> └── <year> └── <2digit-month> └── <2digit-day>.pdf