Codechef-Problem-Statement-Downloader

This is the script that I have used to download the codechef problem statements.

Omkar Pathak,
Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Requirements

• Beautiful Soup Module

  • If you are using Debian or any Debian based Linux distro such as Ubuntu then you can install Beautiful Soup by typing apt-get install python-bs4 (for Python 2) or apt-get install python3-bs4 (for Python 3)
  • If you prefer downloading via pip you can download it by executing these commands: pip install beautifulsoup4 (for Python 2) or pip3 install beautifulsoup4 (for Python 3)

• urllib.request module

  • This module is built-in for Python 3
  • Python 2 users can use urllib2 in the program

How to Use

• Download or fork the repository.
• Make sure all the requirements are satisfied.
• Run the application by executing python3 CodechefProblemStatementDownloader.py command in your terminal.

Working

• Each problem statement gets downloaded and is written in a text file. The file is named according to the code name given by the codechef.

• Each file contains the problem statement as described on the codechef website

• Problem statements are arranged according to their level. Beginner (School), easy , medium, hard, challenge, peer (extcontest) are the levels defined by codechef

Todo

• Add the progess bar for downloads.
• Improve the overall execution using multitasking.