huzecong · January 29, 2020 21:14 · Jan 29, 2020
diff --git a/guess_colloquium.py b/guess_colloquium.py
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+import itertools
+from typing import List, Optional
+
+import requests
+
+
+def get_url(url_base: str, xs: List[int]) -> str:
+    return url_base + "".join(chr(x + 97) for x in xs)
+
+
+def attempt(date: str, speaker_last_name: str) -> Optional[str]:
+    url_base = f"http://aladdin3.inf.cs.cmu.edu/colcheck/?k={speaker_last_name}_{date}"
+
+    for n_letters in range(0, 2 + 1):
+        for xs in itertools.product(*[range(26) for _ in range(n_letters)]):
+            url = get_url(url_base, xs)
+            r = requests.get(url)
+            if b"img" in r.content:
+                return url
+
+    return None
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    date = "0124"
+    speaker_last_name = "starzl"
+    url = attempt(date, speaker_last_name)
+    if url is None:
+        print("Failed")
+    else:
+        print(url)