xword-dl
⬛⬜⬛ Command line tool to scrape crosswords from online solvers and save them as .puz files ⬛⬜⬛ (by thisisparker)
CrosswordScraper
Browser extension which downloads crosswords from crossword applets for offline solving. (by jpd236)
| xword-dl | CrosswordScraper | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2 | |
| 138 | 27 | |
| - | - | |
| 7.9 | 7.5 | |
| 10 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Python | Kotlin | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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?
CrosswordScraper
Posts with mentions or reviews of CrosswordScraper.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-04.
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Crossword Scraper updates - now supports NYT!
Please let me know of any issues you find at https://github.com/jpd236/CrosswordScraper!
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Browser extension for downloading .puz/.jpz files from Crossword applets
If you have feature requests / bugs, or want to contribute yourself or hack locally, the source code and issue tracker is available here. I'm planning to add PDF generation, an option to make Downs Only files, and better support for unicode characters when converting to .puz (but you should really use .jpz instead if you can!).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing xword-dl and CrosswordScraper you can also consider the following projects:
crosshare - Crosshare is a free and ad-free community for crossword constructors and solvers
downloadacross - chrome extension for downloading crosswords from various sources
xword - Cross-platform crossword solving