maze_generator.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import requests
import re
from urllib.parse import urljoin
import os

def get_maze_generator_page():
    """Get the maze generator page to extract form data and session info"""
    url = "https://www.mazegenerator.net/"
    headers = {
        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36'
    }
    
    response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
    return response.text, response.cookies

def extract_form_data(html_content):
    """Extract form data and hidden fields from the page"""
    # Look for form action URL
    form_action_match = re.search(r'<form[^>]*action=["\']([^"\']*)["\']', html_content, re.IGNORECASE)
    form_action = form_action_match.group(1) if form_action_match else ""
    
    # Look for hidden inputs
    hidden_inputs = re.findall(r'<input[^>]*type=["\']hidden["\'][^>]*name=["\']([^"\']*)["\'][^>]*value=["\']([^"\']*)["\']', html_content, re.IGNORECASE)
    form_data = dict(hidden_inputs)
    
    # Look for viewstate and other common ASP.NET fields
    viewstate_match = re.search(r'name=["\']__VIEWSTATE["\'][^>]*value=["\']([^"\']*)["\']', html_content)
    if viewstate_match:
        form_data['__VIEWSTATE'] = viewstate_match.group(1)
    
    viewstategen_match = re.search(r'name=["\']__VIEWSTATEGENERATOR["\'][^>]*value=["\']([^"\']*)["\']', html_content)
    if viewstategen_match:
        form_data['__VIEWSTATEGENERATOR'] = viewstategen_match.group(1)
    
    eventvalidation_match = re.search(r'name=["\']__EVENTVALIDATION["\'][^>]*value=["\']([^"\']*)["\']', html_content)
    if eventvalidation_match:
        form_data['__EVENTVALIDATION'] = eventvalidation_match.group(1)
    
    return form_action, form_data

def generate_maze(width=25, height=35):
    """Generate a maze with specified dimensions"""
    # Get the initial page
    html_content, cookies = get_maze_generator_page()
    
    # Extract form data
    form_action, form_data = extract_form_data(html_content)
    
    # Add maze parameters with correct field names from the HTML
    form_data.update({
        'ShapeDropDownList': '1',  # Rectangular
        'S1TesselationDropDownList': '1',  # Orthogonal (Square cells)
        'S1WidthTextBox': str(width),
        'S1HeightTextBox': str(height),
        'S1InnerWidthTextBox': '0',
        'S1InnerHeightTextBox': '0',
        'S1StartsAtDropDownList': '1',  # Top
        'AlgorithmParameter1TextBox': '50',  # E parameter
        'AlgorithmParameter2TextBox': '100',  # R parameter
        'GenerateButton': 'Generate'
    })
    
    # Make the request to generate the maze
    headers = {
        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36',
        'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
        'Referer': 'https://www.mazegenerator.net/'
    }
    
    # Determine the full URL for the form submission
    if form_action:
        submit_url = urljoin('https://www.mazegenerator.net/', form_action)
    else:
        submit_url = 'https://www.mazegenerator.net/'
    
    response = requests.post(submit_url, data=form_data, cookies=cookies, headers=headers)
    
    return response.text, response.cookies

def download_pdf(html_content, cookies, filename="maze.pdf"):
    """Download the maze as PDF by submitting the download form"""
    # Extract form data for the download request
    form_action, form_data = extract_form_data(html_content)
    
    # Add download parameters
    form_data.update({
        'FileFormatSelectorList': '1',  # PDF (A4 size)
        'DownloadFileButton': 'Download'
    })
    
    # Make the request to download the PDF
    headers = {
        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36',
        'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
        'Referer': 'https://www.mazegenerator.net/'
    }
    
    # Determine the full URL for the form submission
    if form_action:
        submit_url = urljoin('https://www.mazegenerator.net/', form_action)
    else:
        submit_url = 'https://www.mazegenerator.net/'
    
    response = requests.post(submit_url, data=form_data, cookies=cookies, headers=headers)
    
    # Check if the response is a PDF file
    content_type = response.headers.get('content-type', '').lower()
    if 'pdf' in content_type:
        with open(filename, 'wb') as f:
            f.write(response.content)
        print(f"PDF downloaded successfully as {filename}")
        return True
    else:
        print(f"Response is not a PDF. Content-Type: {content_type}")
        # Save the response for debugging
        with open("download_response.html", "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
            f.write(response.text)
        print("Download response saved to download_response.html for inspection")
        return False

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print("Generating maze with width=25, height=35...")
    
    # Generate the maze
    maze_html, maze_cookies = generate_maze(25, 35)
    
    # Try to download PDF
    success = download_pdf(maze_html, maze_cookies, "maze_25x35.pdf")
    
    if not success:
        print("Let's try to find alternative download methods...")
        # Save the HTML response for inspection
        with open("maze_response.html", "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
            f.write(maze_html)
        print("Response saved to maze_response.html for inspection")