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Christopher_Parsons

I was hoping there is a way to manipulate the address in the search bar to gain access to the overall archive of all players rated at a particular level? 

Here is a pic of what I am getting at, if you look at the items circled in red pen, I was wondering if I can manipulate the address bar in anyway to gain access to perhaps a Chees.com archive, instead of an individual player's archive and then in the interface circled to the right, put in a rating range, to then be able to download batches of games, where I can omit players who are untitled for example? 

acity609

Have you looked at the API? You can achieve much of what you want through the API.

https://www.chess.com/news/view/published-data-api

Christopher_Parsons

No, but thanks for the info. I have never quite understood how to utilize this. I have some intriguing data crunching formulas to enter game into, which would be more useful if I could gather information and process it more efficiently. 

Martin_Stahl

There's no way to get all players games, restricted by rating or not. You would have to get games member by member.

Christopher_Parsons
Martin_Stahl wrote:

There's no way to get all players games, restricted by rating or not. You would have to get games member by member.

Ok thanks Martin, but perhaps I could put in a request to change that? Surely Chess.com has a single database containing all of the games, or perhaps separate ones for each time control. It seems like a simply matter of changing a few lines of code to grant access or perhaps there already is a way to access it for the initiated.

 

As for my last speculation, I don't expect anyone to admit to it, especially if they don't want anyone to figure out how to access such a database or other parts of the site. I am not sure why they would want to keep someone from doing it in the case of the database, other than just to discourage people from exploring ways to manipulate the site like developers, mods and staff do. I do realize there are such things as account permissions, but my point is, if you know how to type the right things into the search bar, you can arrive at site destinations without clicking links and you could potentially access things that there aren't created link for. Those links may not exist intentionally and knowing what to type in, is the equivalent of entering a pass code at that point.