Limit on daily number of games

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I’m thinking of making an Android app to limit the number of games you can play per day on chess.com.
If you’d use this, please upvote so I know it’s worth the time and money I'd put into this project.

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GiniwiniL wrote:

I’m thinking of making an Android app to limit the number of games you can play per day on chess.com.
If you’d use this, please upvote so I know it’s worth the time and money I'd put into this project.

An outside app can't prevent starting games on Chess.com

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Martin_Stahl wrote:
GiniwiniL wrote:

I’m thinking of making an Android app to limit the number of games you can play per day on chess.com.
If you’d use this, please upvote so I know it’s worth the time and money I'd put into this project.

An outside app can't prevent starting games on Chess.com

I’ve carefully reviewed Chess.com’s documentation, including:

  • The Published-Data API help article, which states that it’s a read-only JSON-LD REST API providing publicly available data (player profiles, game archives, club info, etc.) and cannot be used to send game moves or other commands to Chess.com support.chess.com.

  • GitHub and gist documentation that also emphasize the API is strictly for retrieving public data and not for gameplay or authenticated actions Gist.

  • Forum discussions confirming that using anything beyond this public API—like scraping site content or bypassing the API—is against the Terms of Service Chess.com.

With this in mind, my plan is to develop the Android app using only the Published-Data API—no screen scraping and no requiring Chess.com login. From everything I can find, this approach should align with published policies.

If you’re aware of any specific documentation, clause, or guideline that states otherwise, I’d greatly appreciate if you could point me to it. Your guidance would be really helpful.

Thanks so much for your time and for the work you do moderating!

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GiniwiniL a écrit :

I’m thinking of making an Android app to limit the number of games you can play per day on chess.com.
If you’d use this, please upvote so I know it’s worth the time and money I'd put into this project.

It will be really helpfull for me! I found using a time limit not effective since I have to change it because it is interrupting me during my games.