Dan’s Blog

If you’re like me, you’re a Will Shortz junkie. You’ve several of his crossword books, and even remember fondly his time at Games magazine. You’ve also got a subscription to the New York Times crossword puzzle, but you don’t remember to download the puzzle on a daily basis. So you’re like, “Hey, I wish the puzzle would download to my computer every day, or, better yet, I wish it would show up in my inbox.”

I wrote a small perl script that does just that — it downloads the current puzzle, saves it where you want it, and emails it to addresses you specify. It’ll work best for OS X and Linux users, as it’s written in perl and requires a few external but fairly standard libraries that can be installed via CPAN. Download it here: NY Times Crossword Puzzle Downloader.

Short Directions:
Rename the file from .txt to .pl, make it executable, customize the variables, and add it as a cronjob.

Longer Directions:
…When I get a few minutes.

License: GPL, of course.