Advent of Code

How to use the scripts

get_day.py

Session file

1. Create a file named session
2. Log In on Advent of Code website
3. Open console (Ctrl+Shift+i or simply F12)
4. Go to Storage tab on Firefox or Application tab on Chrome based browser
5. In the sidebar find Cookies and locate the one that has your session stored
6. Copy that session to the file you created

Running the script

• just run it with python3.7+ and it will tell you what you need to know to use it
• all of the dependencies (imports) should be built-in but as I am not sure run the script and you will probably get some errors

Result

• The script creates a folder with the name of year fetched (if the foder doesn't currently exist)
• in the folder it will create 3 files (where {day} represents the day fetched):
  1. {day}.py
     • here is initial code with useful imports and separated functions for both parts of the challenge
     • it is also already setup to split the input by lines or something else (depending on the input itself - you have to pick one!)
  2. {day}_day
     • here is the text (task) of the day fetched
  3. {day}_input
     • which holds the input data for you
• in addition the script will create a file with the exact time when it has fetched the day so you can track your time when solving

aoc_main.sh

Requirements

1. Linux machine or wsl
2. Sublime Text editor which could be open from said machine

Running the script

This script should be used during the day you want to solve the problem because the aoc_main.sh runs get_day.py with current year and day and then opens everything it fetched in Sublime Text

1. Try to execute previous script to see if everything works
2. Run the script and results will be the same as running get_day.py but in addition Sublime Text opens files which were fetched

Solved

2015

[1, 25]

2016

[1, 25]

2017

[1, 25]

2018

[1, 25]

2019

[1, 25]

2020

[1, 25]

2021

[1, 25]

2022

[1, 25]

2023

[1, 25]