#!/bin/bash

# crossword,
# a wget-based nytimes crossword downloader

# Liz A. Denys (liz@lizdenys.com)
# Last updated on May 13, 2015

# This script downloads today's New York Times daily crossword. To
# use, you must change the email and password information below so
# that it corresponds to your premium New York Times account.

# Get the current date.
puzdate=`date "+%Y-%m-%d"`
pdfdate=`date "+%b%d%y"`

# Get the login page.
wget --no-check-certificate https://myaccount.nytimes.com/auth/login \
  -O login.html &>/dev/null

# Scrape token and expires values so wget can auth.
token=`grep token login.html | sed -e 's/^.*value="\([0-9a-f]\+\)".*$/\1/'`
expires=`grep expires login.html | sed -e 's/^.*value="\([0-9a-f]\+\)".*$/\1/'`

# Log in with password. Note: this does not work without replacing
# username and password information.
wget --post-data \
  "userid=USERNAME%40DOMAIN.COM&password=PASSWORDVALUE&is_continue=false&remember=true&token=$token&expires=$expires" \
  --save-cookies=cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies --no-check-certificate \
  -O /dev/null https://myaccount.nytimes.com/auth/login &>/dev/null

# Download puzzle in .pdf and .puz formats.
wget --load-cookies=cookies.txt \
 http://www.nytimes.com/svc/crosswords/v2/puzzle/print/$pdfdate.pdf \
  &>/dev/null
wget --load-cookies=cookies.txt \
  http://www.nytimes.com/svc/crosswords/v2/puzzle/daily-$puzdate.puz \
  &>/dev/null

# Clean up workspace.
rm cookies.txt
rm login.html