How to download all games from chess.com masters database?

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BlitzKing45
I looked through the API documentation and there doesn't seem to be a way to download all the pgn's from the chess.com masters database: https://www.chess.com/games. The only other way is to manually download every single game with the download button, is there any workaround for this with the API possibly?
thundertoad2379

not that i know of

Martin_Stahl

That database isn't available through the API

YankeeBastid

The only way I know is to request game results individually when the avatar is known by the player. I do that on a daily basis when I run my chess.com club 4teamchess International, competition and post the results at www.4teamchess.com

BlitzKing45
Martin_Stahl wrote:

That database isn't available through the API

Is there any workaround to mass download games from the database?

YankeeBastid

think about what you are asking. Look at the number of players and number of matches being played each day! You would need a server farm so big and so expensive, that even if you could download all the download all the games played on a given day you couldnt' do it.

BlitzKing45
YankeeBastid wrote:

think about what you are asking. Look at the number of players and number of matches being played each day! You would need a server farm so big and so expensive, that even if you could download all the download all the games played on a given day you couldnt' do it.

As far as I know, the master's database is static, it's a collection of all the OTB games that those GM's have played. Also, if the chess.com API already has monthly PGN's of all their players, I don't see why the master's database should be much harder.

Martin_Stahl
BlitzKing45 wrote:
Martin_Stahl wrote:

That database isn't available through the API

Is there any workaround to mass download games from the database?

No

djconnel

I think you could create your own if you wanted by looking at the list of GMs and downloading their archives, but to build up a meaningful opening library would take hundreds of thousands of games.

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