NYT changed the fucking wordle word list again
and worse they made it so there's only one single string of words now instead of one for accepted guesses and another for the answer list, they're just concatenated together
this makes it a pain to scrape for updating palmdle
they didn't change the word list... they changed the way they pick the answers
today's answer should've been wordle 1622 not wordle 506
they're probably fuzzing the index specifically to fuck with people trying to clone their game
i think they're fetching the word list index from an API. this makes it impossible for offline clones to match the nyt list. top notch thanks capitalism
yup. they're fuzzing the answer (no longer sequential by date) and using an API to fetch the answer each day. it goes only up to the 23rd of december of this year, so you can't even fetch any further ahead than that to build an offline version.
one solution i'm thinking of is if game id >= 506 i put a dialog box on that asks you to input the ID number returned by the API and build a small website which fetches that daily for you (bonus i could even generate an rss feed with the id)
i'm going to start working on this tomorrow. i wanted to do it sooner to not leave a big gap for palmdle players but unfortunately i can't get it all done too quick. pamdle 2.0 will come with the web ID function, with option for offline play (stay on old course)
there. we have a website to check each game's ID, and it even generates an RSS feed. tomorrow i'll get started modifying palmdle so new games ask you for an ID.
@mavica_again There's things I dislike, but the DateTime API for it always felt WAY more sophisticated than any other language's native one. I'm gonna have to find something comparable for Python; native datetime.DateTime is just kind of a crappy class to work directly with.
i really like php