This is my repository for the Advent of Code (https://adventofcode.com/), starting from 2021.
Inside each year folder, such as 2021/, there are folders for each day's puzzles (dayN).
These contain 2 files each: dayN.py (my solutions w/ Python) and dayN.txt (input data).
A few minutes before 12:00 AM EST, run initialize.py.
The script creates the folder and Python file (from template.py) for the day.
Then, it checks in 0.5s intervals for midnight, upon which it downloads the input file for the day to dayN.txt inside the proper folder.
Finally, it attempts to find the example input and save it to dayN_exmaple.txt (might be incorrect, best to double-check manually).
Inside utilities/ are my custom-made utilities for completing AoC, with a Puzzle class and necessary errors & logging tools.
With utils.py, the following automated process can be set up: check solver code with example input/answer, if correct then submit answer to AoC (with a cache for incorrect answers).
Various features in initialize.py and utils.py are made possible by the session cookie in AoC.
The cookie value can be found in the Application tab of Inspect Element, Storage > Cookies > session.
Create a .env file in the root project folder with content
session=cookie_value_here
The dependencies for this repository are saved in a requirements.txt.
Be sure to create a venv (I used Python 3.10.0), activate it, and run
pip install -r requirements.txt