They might not want to release it so as to avoid engine monkeys from making use of the info.
chess.com API?
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May 31, 2019
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#4
mgx9600 wrote:
Hi,
I remember reading that chess.com has public API allowing third party developers to write client software.
Is this true? If so, where can I find some docs on it?
Last I recall, it allowed some ways to interface with the site, but was mostly limited to data lookup. There is no way to write a chess client to play, as I recall. The link provided be @jeff2e16 should have all the details.
Thanks for the info.
May 31, 2019
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#6
No major website is in a developy mood, <Moderator> Text Removed for Violating Community guidelines. gchess325.
The staff says the Interactive API should be coming by the end of 2020, so perhaps in 2021.
https://www.chess.com/news/view/published-data-api
This would be huge to be able to make your own physical electronic chessboard for example and play versus online humans by receiving and sending game moves through their API !
Yes, if the API comes along, I'll write a chessboard software that works with chess.com.
Right now, I have 2 ideas in mind:
1. A phone (with camera) set up above a regular board to forward moves to chess.com and speak opponent moves.
2. The above set up but also ask the phone to control a robot arm to physically perform the opponent move (as well as speak it). The arm can also move the player's pieces so with voice command.
Oh, the above cases will use a regular chessboard, of course.
So, how square shess off works then? if api is not allowed. They have mobile app with connection to chess.com
Dec 15, 2020
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#11
alexeykutirev wrote:
So, how square shess off works then? if api is not allowed. They have mobile app with connection to chess.com
Square Off worked with the site to develop it and my guess is that it is locked down to the Square Off servers.
I would love to see game API to enable Chess.com in VR. How cool this might be!
@mgx9600
This is actually exactly what I was looking to do when I landed on this thread.
Now that I’m home all day my hope was to be able to set up my chess board in the corner and have it always accurately reflect the game I’m playing against my dad on here. Thought that would be pretty neat and I’m hoping to build some part of that. Will post any results here.
This is actually exactly what I was looking to do when I landed on this thread.
Now that I’m home all day my hope was to be able to set up my chess board in the corner and have it always accurately reflect the game I’m playing against my dad on here. Thought that would be pretty neat and I’m hoping to build some part of that. Will post any results here.
Jan 12, 2021
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#14
Another +1 from me, recently joining chess.com coming from the ICS. I have already implemented an ICS interface for my DGT chessboard and if this new interactive API
"This is read-only data. You cannot send game-moves or other commands to Chess.com from this system. If you wish to send commands, you will be interested in the Interactive API releasing later this year."
is indeed coming "later this year", I'll try to do an implementation of it to play online-"otb" with the DGT clock/board also for chess.com.
Jan 12, 2021
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#15
masterofamn wrote:
Another +1 from me, recently joining chess.com coming from the ICS. I have already implemented an ICS interface for my DGT chessboard and if this new interactive API
"This is read-only data. You cannot send game-moves or other commands to Chess.com from this system. If you wish to send commands, you will be interested in the Interactive API releasing later this year."
is indeed coming "later this year", I'll try to do an implementation of it to play online-"otb" with the DGT clock/board also for chess.com.
The site already has DGT support.
https://support.chess.com/article/1257-how-can-i-play-with-a-dgt-board
But the site won't open the API to allow game play.
Jan 12, 2021
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#16
Thanks for the link, I will take a closer look at this. What I want to do though is to implement this on my DGTPi, i.e. use the RasPi inside my DGT clock for the link. If the interface to DGT already exists this should be possible to do...
[Edit: entry was cut short on my smartphone]
mgx9600 wrote:
Hi,
I remember reading that chess.com has public API allowing third party developers to write client software.
Is this true? If so, where can I find some docs on it?
My friend at school made a discord bot that uses chess.com api to show chess player stats.
Jul 13, 2022
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#19
Does anyone have an update on this? I would like to integrate my Chess.com activity into Timeular, an activity tracking app I use. I want to know how much time per week I spend playing chess.
Jul 13, 2022
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#20
Dmrenger wrote:
Does anyone have an update on this? I would like to integrate my Chess.com activity into Timeular, an activity tracking app I use. I want to know how much time per week I spend playing chess.
I replied in the Developer club notes, but you would need to write a process to export your games and parse them to extract the time spent playing each game and do the calculations.
Hi,
I remember reading that chess.com has public API allowing third party developers to write client software.
Is this true? If so, where can I find some docs on it?