Wordle in One Line

You may know that the solution for each day’s Wordle puzzle is in its source code. Is there a way to grab it from the command line? Naturally.

Start with grabbing the source and outputting to stdin (may as well add -q, we don’t need the output):

wget -q -O- powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/main.e65ce0a5.js

Next we just grab the solutions list (look for Var La, then note the index of the opening bracket, then go to the matching bracket (using % in Vim) and note the closing index):

cut -c 28467-46985

Next, calculate the number of days since the beginning and return this word. This stage took a bit of experimenting, to find today’s solution’s index, then work backwards to find how many days ago Solution Zero is.

day=$((($(date "+%s")-$(date -jf "%F" "2021-06-18" "+%s"))/(3600*24)))

Then we can use awk to find the word:

awk -F',' -v day=$day '{print $day}'

We now have our answer, but this returns a lot of whitespace, so let’s clean it up:

sed '/^$/d'

And remove the quotes, for extra credit:

tr -d '"'

To sum up:

wget -O- -q powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/main.e65ce0a5.js | cut -c 28467-46985 | awk -F',' -v day=$((($(date "+%s")-$(date -jf "%F" "2021-06-18" "+%s"))/(3600*24))) '{print $day}' | sed '/^$/d' | tr -d '"'

Wordle 220 1/6

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