Inspiration
Wordle is something everyone plays, and when someone gets it right and in less time than me, that is my motivation (inspiration)
What it does
It is a bot that literally solves the headache giving game wordle (your welcome).
How we built it
It uses webscraping and web automation libraries such as python to get a request for the website, and then I use a lot of python's inbuilt string methods and wrote logical methods to figure the word out in the most efficient way possible.
Challenges we ran into
While webscraping the html element I was looking for was highly secure due to it being inside of a shadow DOM. I had to find a way to get around that, and that nearly took me 3-4 hours, but I got it to work eventually. Another challenge was that Selenium runs off a chromedriver that we have to install onto our computer. I realized whenever there is an update for chrome, the chromedriver would be out of date so I had to implement a way to update the chromedriver whenever there is a new update, so I did that, and this took 4 hours as well.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
It works and it is pretty fast, solves it in 10 seconds. It's a great feeling to do the Wordle with no stress!
What we learned
Learned a lot more about web automation, webscraping, handling web issues, html inspection, etc.
What's next for Wordle Solver
Whether I win or lose this project, I definitely want to learn more about building AIs and bots, this project will be my inspiration. Also looking forward to doing more hackathons from your organization, cool event you posted!
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