crosshare
Crosshare is a free and ad-free community for crossword constructors and solvers (by crosshare-org)
xword-dl
⬛⬜⬛ Command line tool to scrape crosswords from online solvers and save them as .puz files ⬛⬜⬛ (by thisisparker)
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| crosshare | xword-dl | |
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| 33 | 2 | |
| 100 | 136 | |
| - | - | |
| 9.1 | 8.1 | |
| 4 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| TypeScript | Python | |
| GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | MIT License |
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crosshare
Posts with mentions or reviews of crosshare.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-24.
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Want to create my own crossword - cryptic or otherwise. Any resources/websites?
https://crosshare.org/ is worth a look. Lets you build a grid and then 'autofills' suggested words around the words you enter. (And then you can overwrite the suggestions, and it gives more).
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[Crosswords] The (New York) Times They are a-Changin'
Adam Aaronson and Ross Tredeau are great. Sometimes I'll scroll around https://crosshare.org and do some midis. There are some other suggestions in this comment section from other users.
All in all, things are slowly improving. The Times revamped their submission process, and though some outlets are steadfast in appealing to an older crowd, plenty of independent and smaller publishers are doing really good work to improve diversity. USA Today (which had the plagiarism scandal) got a new editor, Erik Agard, who publishes majority women, and Universal and the New Yorker both also have noticeably more diversity in construction than other outlets. Other people choose independent outlets to publish on just for fun, which democratizes the hobby in general.
- Anyone get a NYT response recently?
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Overriding the Crossshare color scheme? 7xwords accessibility issue.
I created this issue if you'd like to track progress or give feedback: https://github.com/mdirolf/crosshare/issues/308
There is now an "open on crosshare.org" link on the bottom of the begin/pause screen for embeds - right next to the "powered by crosshare.org" link :)
The way it works for embeds is that the embedder gets to choose their own color theme. One fear I had when I added that was that it could mess w/ readability depending on what they chose, but I figured it was up to the embedder to get it right. But I like the idea of letting the solver choose to override it. Or maybe it'd be sufficient to just add an "open on crosshare.org" button to the embed that takes you to the puzzle's page on crosshare which will then use your chosen color theme?
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Browser extension for downloading .puz/.jpz files from Crossword applets
Crosshare
xword-dl
Posts with mentions or reviews of xword-dl.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-10.
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Browser extension for downloading .puz/.jpz files from Crossword applets
There's nothing too groundbreaking here - a great PuzzleMe -> PUZ/JPZ bookmarklet was posted here just last week, and xword-dl can pull puzzles from applets as well - but my hope is this makes it a bit easier to use and keep up to date, and also supports a few more formats + has a bit deeper compatibility for trickier puzzles.
- Downloading New Yorker puzzles (puz/jpz/etc.) -- any ideas?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing crosshare and xword-dl you can also consider the following projects:
wordler - find solution to wordle every day and create an issue for each day
metastream - Watch streaming media with friends.
cloudbeaver - Cloud Database Manager
crossword - Scraping personal NYT crossword stats
Phil - A crossword maker.
Traduora - Ever® Traduora™ - Open Translation Management Platform
CrosswordScraper - Browser extension which downloads crosswords from crossword applets for offline solving.
exet - Web app for crossword construction: designing a grid, filling the grid, creating straight or cryptic clues, and downloading as Exolve or .puz. All data is saved locally, no crosswords are sent to any server.
downloadacross - chrome extension for downloading crosswords from various sources