Advent of Code - Python SlackBot

Will post the leaderboard to Slack

How to set up

The app is hosted on https://www.pythonanywhere.com/, using the Hacker $5/month plan, because I want the script to run twice a day

File structure

• /home/USERNAME/slack.py
• /home/USERNAME/advent_of_code.py
• /home/USERNAME/run.py

Task commands

The tasks run in UTC timezone, so in Norwegian winter-time, GMT+1, the times are 10:00 and 20:00

• Daily 09:00 python /home/USERNAME/run.py <aoc_api_url> <aoc_session_cookie> <aoc_join_code> <slack_webhook_url>
• Daily 19:00 python /home/USERNAME/run.py <aoc_api_url> <aoc_session_cookie> <aoc_join_code> <slack_webhook_url>

Environment variables/Arguments

1. Create a Slackbot and get the webhook URL
   1. Should look like this: https://hooks.slack.com/services/<SECRET>/<SECRET>/<SECRET>
2. Create a leaderboard on Advent of Code and get the API URL
   1. Should look like this: https://adventofcode.com/<year>/leaderboard/private/view/<ID>.json
   2. Get the join code
   3. Inspect element and find the header called Cookie and get the session value