A few days ago I stumbled upon the HigherLower Game and got instantly addicted in a strange way. The task is to tell if a term got googled more or less than another one.
But unfortunately I was realy bad. Like really. I had nothing else to do beside learning and assignments for uni. So basically a lot of free time (nervous laugh).
Thus I wrote a python program wich should play for me and master the game.
Since the game is a purly javascript generated website with only javascript links I went went with Selenium. Selenium is a suite of tools specifically for automating web browsers. For more informations: www.seleniumhq.org.
For the sake of simplicity, the program learns all values by try and error. It reads the terms and their values and stores them in a dictionary.
The code is pretty much self-explaining. Just take a look in the files. For the sake of completeness I put in a 'Code'-Section anyway, just to look kind of professional :D.
Contains a class which brings all the methods needed for learning the values and playing the game.
Contains the learning routine.
After one and a half day of learnig the program has played the game through. The total length of the dictionary is 1557. The data is stored in hlc.data via the pickle module.
If you want to run it yourself for days, you must be stupid. A lot of them are dependencies of selnium. These are the python libs you need (i set up a python venv):
$ pip freeze
asn1crypto==0.24.0
bcrypt==3.1.5
certifi==2018.11.29
cffi==1.11.5
chardet==3.0.4
cryptography==2.4.2
idna==2.8
paramiko==2.4.2
pkg-resources==0.0.0
pyasn1==0.4.5
pycparser==2.19
PyNaCl==1.3.0
python-xlib==0.23
selenium==3.141.0
six==1.12.0
tldextract==2.2.0
urllib3>=1.24.2Ater installing the requirements you migth get the following error:
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH.
Have a look at this StackOverflow question/answer (Selenium using Python - Geckodriver executable needs to be in PATH ) for further information and solution.