aoc_utilities

Advent of Code Utilities

These are some utilities I use during advent of code. Feel free to take a look and use/modify them if you find them useful.

• aoc download downloads your input from the advent of code website.
• aoc leaderboard downloads the specified leaderboard from the website.
• aoc scores will create a pretty text rendering of the JSON leaderboard file.

Bash completion is available by adding

eval "$(aoc completion)"

to your .bashrc file.

Good Citizenship

These utilities identify themselves to the Advent of Code server in accordance with automation guidelines. Please do your part by following the rules below:

• Direct the output of the download and leaderboard commands to a file so it is cached. For example to download your day's input, use the command:

  aoc download > day01-input.txt
  

• Aim to download each day's input only once. On occasion there may be an issue that requires that you download it twice, but this should be rare.

• Do not download the leaderboard more than once every 15 minutes.

Thank you for keeping the load on Advent of Code's servers to a minimum.