Wordle "Solver"

wordle.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
from datetime import datetime
import urllib.request
import re

# grab the word list
words_url = 'https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/main.c1506a22.js'
req = urllib.request.Request(words_url, data=None,
    headers={
        'User-Agent': 'Wordle "Solver" 1.0'
    }
)
f = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
raw_words = f.read().decode('utf-8')
m = re.search(r'var La=\[(.*?)\]', raw_words)
words = m.group(1).replace('"',"").split(",")

# calculate number of days since the Wordle epoch
epoch = datetime(2021,6,19,0,0,0,0)
today = datetime.now().replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0, microsecond=0)
days_since_epoch = (today - epoch).days

print(words[days_since_epoch % len(words)])