nytimes download is broken on missing

When trying to download any NYTimes puzzle, I'm getting the error Error Loading Puzzle even though I'm signed in.

The line var a = doc.indexOf('pluribus'); is returning -1 for me -- this magic string isn't found. It seems the NYTimes HTML response used to have the puzzle embedded in it(?)

When I inspect the official app now, the puzzle is loaded by the chain

And it's this JSON that has the puzzle data:


      "clues": [
        {
          "cells": [0, 1, 2, 3],
          "direction": "Across",
          "label": "1",
          "text": [{ "plain": "Beginner, in lingo" }]
        },
        {
          "cells": [5, 6, 7, 8],
          "direction": "Across",
          "label": "5",
          "text": [
            {
              "formatted": "Beaten via a referee\u0026#39;s decision, for short",
              "plain": "Beaten via a referee's decision, for short"
            }
          ]
        },

If I try to just naively fetch() this JSON url, it 403's because appspot.com isn't getting NYT cookies. With curl it seems the solution is to send the NYT-S cookie, but i'm unsure how the chrome extension can access that.

(As a workaround, I found that this other extension works to download the PUZ. Also, looking at the source code for how that extension works, downloading from appspot.com API is exactly what it does.)

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