GuardianPuz

Given a Guardian cryptic crossword number, spits out a puz file suitable for use with cursewords

Requirements

Python 2.something
puzpy - pip install puzpy
beautiful soup - pip install bs4

Usage

python guardianpuz.py <NUMBER> --type=TYPE

NUMBER is the number of the crossword you want to load, for example 27763. You can find it in the URL, e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27763. TYPE is one of cryptic, prize, everyman, quiptic (I've only tested with prize and cryptic)

This creates a file named output.puz with your crossword, to open in the puz-reading program of your choice. I only test with cursewords because I'm lazy.

Example screenshot

Things I'd love for this to do but haven't yet implemented

For non-prize crosswords, get the solution (i.e. press 'reveal all', read all the solution text. Does BS4 know how to javascript?)
Have code that is not godawful and hacked together when I was too lazy to solve the Prize crossword, but not too lazy to do something.
Be distributed via pip
Have any kind of error handling at all
Not to be written in python 2 (but I think puzpy only works in 2, so not my fault, guv)
Have the ability to find the latest crossword in a category. I can't see a good way to do this looking at the structure of the Guardian's listing pages.

Other notes

Since we're crawling a web page to do this and rely on specific structures, things might break at any time. I probably would have been better off using my time to send the Guardian a nice message asking them to provide puz files daily.

Contributing

Let's be honest, you're probably better at programming than I am. Just hack on it and send me patches.