Warning
This software uses HTML parsing and it might break in the future.
Codewars Archiver is a command-line program that downloads solutions from the Codewars website for a specific user. It works by parsing the HTML of the website by using Beautiful Soup.
Besides downloading source code it also creates a Git repository and creates a commit for each solution file. Every commit has changed AuthorDate to a submit date from the Codewars website. This preserves when the code was actually written. README.md files created for each Kata are commited all at once without changing the date. Creation of a repository can be disabled with the --no-git option.
It creates the following file structure. Repository created by this program can be found at AdrianMiozga/Codewars.
└───output
├───5 kyu
│ └───Kata name #1
│ README.md
│ Solution 1.java
│ Solution 2.java
│
├───6 kyu
│ ├───Kata name #1
│ │ README.md
│ │ Solution.py
│ │
│ └───Kata name #2
│ README.md
│ Solution.kt
│
└───...
README.md files contain Kata title and link.
Kata can have multiple solutions that have identical code. This program skips duplicates and downloads only the oldest solution.
It has been tested on Windows and Linux.
Usage: codewars-archiver.py [-h] [-v] [--no-git]
Options:
-h, --help Print this help message and exit
-v, --version Print program version and exit
--no-git Don’t create a git repository
Create a config.json file in the same directory as codewars_archiver.py from the following template. Replace values of username and _session_id with your Codewars username and _session_id cookie.
{
"username": "<Codewars username>",
"_session_id": "<_session_id cookie from Codewars>"
}The languages.json file is used to map names of programming languages to file extensions. If the language that you are trying to download isn’t there the output file will have full language name as an extension e.g. Solution.kotlin.
It has the following format:
{
"language": "file_extension"
}Where language is the value of the data-language attribute from HTML.