Spelling Bee Browser Extension

For those who love to play the New York Times (NYT) Spelling Bee and want to uncover all the words and beecome the Queen Bee! Link to NYT's Spelling Bee: (https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/spelling-bee).

Installing add-on

https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/distribute-sideloading/

Development

Use web-ext to quickly load the extension into the browser.

npm install --global web-ext

To load the extension, just run:

web-ext run

in the root of this repository.

To debug and see the console, go to about:debugging in the browser and inspect the extension.

Publishing

You'll need to sign the extension. Generate an API key if you haven't already: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/addon/api/key/

• cp .env.example .env and add your API key information
• ./publishScript.sh Be patient; it can take a while

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Logic

How the answers are retrieved

A content script is run within the Spelling Bee page. That content script injects a script element into the DOM which can access the custom properties (e.g. gameData) of the window. The script element script will read the answers from gameData.today.answers and place them in within a hidden element on the DOM.

The content script will then be able to read the hidden element's content and return the answers to the extension.