nyt-leaderboard-scraper 0.0.2

A package to scrape the current NYT Mini Leaderboard.

NYT Leaderboard Scraper

A Python package to log in as a user and scrape their current leaderboard for the NYT Mini.

Installation

pip install nyt-leaderboard-scraper

Usage

"""This script scrapes the leaderboard and prints the scores."""

from nyt_leaderboard_scraper import scraper

NYT_S_COOKIE = "YOUR_NYT_S_COOKIE_HERE"

session = scraper.create_requests_session(NYT_S_COOKIE)
score_collection = scraper.scrape_leaderboard(session)
session.close()

print(score_collection)

How to get your NYT-S Cookie

1. Open a browser and log into NYT Games.
2. Open the web developer tools (aka inspect element or DevTools).
3. Navigate to Application > Cookies > NYT-S and copy the value you see there.

Note:

• The instructions above might not apply directly but should work in general as long as your browser has DevTools.
• The NYT-S cookie should be valid for about 6 months.

Why build this?

A friend of mine was manually recording our scores in a CSV file for data analysis.
In order to save their time, I built a cron job that runs twice a day, scrapes my leaderboard, and uploads those scores to a SQL database.
The Python code for that cron job makes use of this Python library.
Check out that project at NYT-leaderboard-app.