Is it possible and ALLOWED?

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Kyu13

Hello!
I am wondering if it's possible and allowed to extract in real time the move played by a chess.com user in a chess.com game and to paste it into, for instance, a word document or whatever.
For example a player plays 1.e4 in a live game, and 1s later, the system writes somewhere "1.e4"

Thank you!

ninjaswat

The published api has no endpoint for live games afaik.

Martin_Stahl

Scraping data from the site is against the TOS. https://www.chess.com/legal/user-agreement

  • use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other manual or automatic device or process to retrieve, index, “data mine,“ or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Services or its contents;
cfreddy12

Only for daily games

https://api.chess.com/pub/player/{username}/games

Chessisfunforme
Martin_Stahl wrote:

Scraping data from the site is against the TOS. https://www.chess.com/legal/user-agreement

  • use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other manual or automatic device or process to retrieve, index, “data mine,“ or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Services or its contents;

so if a coach wanted to show his or her students an instructional game from chess.com on the chessbase platform would that not be allowed? if not that is too restrictive IMO

real time does make sense though allowing that could lead to a lot of problems

Issaharw

You can't do it in real time for fear of cheating. The coach can do it after the game ended.