A simple code to interact in Python with the "real" 2048 game in web browser.

selenium_2048.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Pierre Haessig — May 2014
"""A simple code to interact in Python with the "real" 2048 game in web browser.
"""

from __future__ import print_function
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

def connect_2048():
    url = "http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/"
    print('Opening Firefox...')
    driver = webdriver.Firefox()
    print('Opening URL "{}"'.format())
    driver.get(url)
    print(driver.title)
    return driver


def find_game_container(driver):
    tile_container = driver.find_element_by_class_name('tile-container')
    return tile_container


def parse_classname(s):
    '''
    ex: s = 'tile tile-4 tile-position-1-2 tile-new'
    ou  'tile tile-4 tile-position-1-4'
      'tile tile-4 tile-position-3-4 tile-merged'
      
    Returns: ((row, col), value, flag)
    '''
    flag = None
    fields = s.replace('-', ' ').split(' ')
    # ex: [u'tile', u'tile', u'4', u'tile', u'position', u'1', u'2', u'tile', u'new']
    value = int(fields[2])
    row = int(fields[6])
    col = int(fields[5])
    
    if len(fields) == 9:
        flag = fields[8]
    
    return ((row, col), value, flag)


def get_grid(tile_container):
    
    tiles = tile_container.find_elements_by_class_name('tile')
    #print(tiles)
    # information can be retrieved from tile class names:
    tile_classes = [t.get_attribute('class') for t in tiles]
    #print('\n'.join(tile_classes))
    
    # a list of tiles (row, col), value, flag)
    tiles_data = [parse_classname(s) for s in tile_classes]
    
    # Build the grid
    grid = [
        [0, 0, 0, 0],
        [0, 0, 0, 0],
        [0, 0, 0, 0],
        [0, 0, 0, 0]]

    for ((row, col), value, flag) in tiles_data:
        if flag == 'merged':
            continue # discard, use the "underlying tiles" addition instead
        grid[row-1][col-1] += value
    
    return grid


def print_grid(grid):
    for r in grid:
        r = ['{:4d}'.format(c) for c in r]
        print(' '.join(r))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    # A test session:
    try:
        driver = connect_2048()
        tile_container = find_game_container(driver)
        grid = get_grid(tile_container)

        print('Starting grid:')
        print_grid(grid)
        print('')

        # Do some actions:
        tile_container.send_keys(Keys.DOWN)
        tile_container.send_keys(Keys.RIGHT)

        grid = get_grid(tile_container)
        print('Modified grid:')
        print_grid(grid)

    finally:
        raw_input('Press enter to close the browser...')
        driver.quit()