/advent-of-code-setup

cli to download and setup advent of code

Primary LanguageGo

Advent of Code Input Downloader

This is a simple command-line tool written in Go that helps you download the input for a specific day of the Advent of Code event.

Usage

To use this tool, you need to provide the year and day of the Advent of Code event as command-line arguments. For example, to download the input for day 1 of the 2021 event, you would run the following command:

go run main.go -y 2021 -d 1

The tool will create a directory for the specified day in the current working directory and download the input file into it.

Session Cookie

In order to download the input, you need to provide your Advent of Code session cookie. This can be done by setting the ADVENT_SESSION_COOKIE environment variable to the value of your session cookie.

Building

To build the tool, simply run the following command:

go build