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zsbostonma

Jan 9, 2023

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#1

When I put this command into a web browser

https://api.chess.com/pub/player/hikaru/games/2021/10

the raw json gets returned. How do I save it into a pgn file so i can open in a database program like chessbase?

Martin_Stahl

Jan 9, 2023

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#2

zsbostonma wrote:

When I put this command into a web browser

https://api.chess.com/pub/player/hikaru/games/2021/10

the raw json gets returned. How do I save it into a pgn file so i can open in a database program like chessbase?

You'll have to write a program to parse the data and output to a text PGN. Or find code someone else has released that has already done that.

AtaChess68

Jan 9, 2023

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#3

I don’t know what a ‘raw json’ is but I do use this link and import the pgn with Scid vs PC without a problem (using tools/import pgn). I am surprised that that doesn’t work in chessbase.

Martin_Stahl

Jan 9, 2023

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#4

AtaChess68 wrote:

I don’t know what a ‘raw json’ is but I do use this link and import the pgn with Scid vs PC without a problem (using tools/import pgn). I am surprised that that doesn’t work in chessbase.

JSON is a wrapper for other data. The export has a lot of other data and not plain PGNs.

zsbostonma

Jan 14, 2023

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#5

I figured it out, all you have to do is put the /pgn on the end and it will be converted to pgn.

https://api.chess.com/pub/player/hikaru/games/2022/12/pgn