an API for sudoku puzzle generation.
Check out the demo!
Using the api is relatively simple. It uses URL parameters, which are essentially key-value pairs separated
by & that come after a ? in a url. See this for more information.
https://puzzle-gen.herokuapp.com/api/v1?quantity=5&size=9&difficulty=Trivial will return JSON with the following structure:
{
"quantity": "5", // the requested number of puzzles (this is a string, not a number)
"size": "9", // the requested size of each of the puzzles (this is a string, not a number)
"difficulty": "Trivial", // the requested Simon Tatham level of difficulty
"IDs": [...], // the list of generated game IDs (strings), in case you want to go back and use it to find the solution
"puzzles": [...], // the list of puzzles (strings) generated from the game IDs
"formatted": [...] // a list of the puzzles transformed into strings that look like real puzzles when printed, eg with python's print or JS's console.log
}