README.md

nyt-crossword-dropbox

Automated NYT crossword to Dropbox downloader, built with AWS.

• Inspiration
• All credit to Nathan Buchar for the Node JS code
  • Blog post

Requirements

• AWS account
• Dropbox account + API token
• New York Times Games subscription
• Terraform v1.0.0 or greater

Usage

• Extract cookie from authenticated NYT session and pass cookie string into var.nyt_cookie
  • This string can be extracted using console.log(document.cookie) while in an authenticated session
  • Cookies that are required to authenticate are: nyt-a, NYT-S, nyt-auth-method, and nyt-m
• Pass Dropbox API key into var.dropbox_token
• Deploy via Terraform

Warnings

• The Dropbox API token and NYT cookie are stored in plaintext in the Lambda environment variables. By default, they are encrypted at rest. It is advisable to also enable helpers for encryption in transit using a customer-managed KMS key.