advent VS advent-of-code-data

My solution runs both parts in 3.5 ms on my 1.80 GHz Dell machine, which I think is pretty good for JavaScript. I explain my solution in the comments.

Here is a link to the Node module that handles my input fetching. The function that performs the actual request is below, using Node's built-in https module:

I made one in JavaScript as part of my AoC framework; feel free to steal the code.

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I mean, yeah, others are welcome to use it: https://github.com/rjwut/advent

My repo is at https://github.com/rjwut/advent. It has all solutions for all years in Node, and includes auto input download, skeleton solution generation, and even OCR for the ASCII letters used in some puzzles.

I just earned my last missing star. (No surprise, it was 2019 day 22. 🤮) My repo has all solutions in JavaScript, the vast majority of which complete sub-second. I also wanted to make it more useful for people learning the language, so I tried to write things in a way that would be more easily readable and maintainable than your typical quick-and-dirty solutions, and there's lots of documentation, probably more than I'd normally write. I also included my framework for generating skeleton solution files and retrieving input from the site (throttled and cached, of course). It even includes my OCR module for reading the large ASCII art letters used in some puzzles. Hope somebody out there finds it helpful in their own quest to improve their coding!

The one additional trick I'd point out is using https://github.com/wimglenn/advent-of-code-data to help automate the process of acquiring your input:

By the way, I use https://github.com/wimglenn/advent-of-code-data to get the data. I removed it from the code to avoid confusion.

advent-of-code-data updated to match this format in v1.2.3 (#91)

I think that's a one-time thing though, so if you get the session cookie now you can use it for the rest of December. There's a python module to grab inputs and submit answers here, would love to see something similar in Haskell!

In addition to doing previous years’, I’d check out https://github.com/wimglenn/advent-of-code-data, which you can use to write some automation about loading data and submitting your responses. If you don’t know how to write unit tests, this might be a good chance to learn the basics. In most problems, he gives you a sample input and the expected result.

If you absolutely must have something download the input for you, then please use an existing, well-tested system like aocd. More people using it and contributing to it makes it less likely that it will have any significant defects.

While researching this I came across https://github.com/wimglenn/advent-of-code-data . If you are looking for something a little more fleshed out than a command line. It lets you access previous years' data as well. Pretty cool.

Since you're using Python, maybe just use https://github.com/wimglenn/advent-of-code-data/tree/master/aocd that seems to have already done these things.

advent-of-code-data might be of use for you, it provides some helpers to fetch inputs and submit solutions to structure your solution around.