word miner

wm.py

import random
import requests
import re

def fetch(max_length=12, min_length=6):
    title = None

    while not title or min_length < len(title) > max_length:
        url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random"
        mashup = requests.get(url).text
        title = re.findall("<title>(.*)\\s-", mashup, flags=re.MULTILINE)[0]
        print("fetching...")
    return title


def create_nonce(length: int = 25, letters="test run"):
    return "".join(random.choice(letters) for i in range(length))


desired = fetch()

while True:
    found = ""
    attempts = 0

    while found != desired:
        attempts += 1
        found = create_nonce(length=len(desired), letters=desired)
        if attempts % (len(desired) ** 5) == 0:
            print(found)

    print(found.lower())

    for letter in desired:
        print(letter.lower())
    print(f"It took me {attempts} attempts to figure this out.\n")

    c = input("Continue?\n")
    accepted = ["y", "yes", ""]

    if not c.lower() in accepted:
        quit(0)