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fix billboard daily download#337

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@alexdej alexdej commented Apr 25, 2026

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Billboard daily download is failing:

$ xword-dl bill
Unable to find puzzles data from picker page.

There seems to be something specific about how billboard's puzzleme embed uses a puzzleme endpoint (cdn2.amuselabs.com/puzzleme) where the other amuselabs-based sites have their own endpoints (eg cdn3.amuselabs.com/atlantic, cdn3.amuselabs.com/vox). I'll be honest I didn't look too closely at it; I just asked claude code to try to figure it out. Claude came up with a workaround using a base64-encoded session blob. No idea how fragile it is, but it seems to unblock this case, at least temporarily. Figured I'd send it upstream in case you wanted to use it.

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Honestly I think the bigger issue is that they stopped publishing in February! Because I never got around to making a search-by-date for this, I think the more straightforward thing is to retire this downloader, alas

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