If you concatenate all the clues_*.txt files, in order, to a single file, you can search through it to get the number of a pattern using standard tools, e.g.
I don't want to ruin the game for the community so will hold off on saying too much. I will say this- this game is very well designed so it's pretty straightforward to understand how it works without using anything more than the network tab of chrome :). No js, frontend puppeteering, etc. are needed. I might write it up when the game is close to completion!