edoardob90 / aoc-py-template

Copier template for an Advent of Code puzzle solved in Python

aoc-py-template

Copier template for an Advent of Code puzzle solved in Python.

Usage

First, you must set a GitHub repository secret named AOC_SESSION_TOKEN with the value of your session cookie. Then, the bare minimum to use this action in your workflow is the following:

name: Advent of Code update

on: push

jobs:
  update_puzzle_input:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Get current day/year
        shell: bash
        run: |
          echo "day=$(date +%-d)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
          echo "year=$(date +%Y)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
      - name: Fetch puzzle input
        uses: edoardob90/aoc-py-template@latest
        with:
          aoc_session_token: ${{ secrets.AOC_SESSION_TOKEN }}
          day: ${{ env.day }}
          year: ${{ env.year }}
          # output: .         # default
          # year_dir: false   # default

By default, the output folder is the repository folder, but you can change it with the output input. Also, it assumes that the repository contains the puzzles of the current year. You can force the creation of a year subdirectory by passing the input year_dir to true.