AoC-tools

This project is a simple toolset to retrieve Advent of Code problem instances and submit solutions to them. I made this mainly for personal use, but feedback is always welcome.

Installation

Clone the source repository, and then run cargo install --path .. This will use cargo to install the project in the current directory. The resulting binary will be placed in $HOME/.cargo/bin under default settings.

Usage

If the binary is in PATH, you can run aoc --help for the usage instructions.

Configuration

aoc will look for a aoc.toml file in the current directory and it's parent directories. You can either add one manually, or create it with aoc init. Here is an example config:

api_key = <secret cookie>         # required
year = 2018                       # required
leaderboards = [<leaderboard id>] # can be empty

Since Advent of Code does not have an official API some of these values need to be digged up using a browser. The api key can be found in your cookies, it looks like this: session=<lots of random characters and numbers>. The leaderboard ID's can be found in the url of the leaderboard: https://adventofcode.com/2018/leaderboard/private/view/<leaderboard id>