Download stats as spreadsheet?

Hi, 

I wanted to do some statistical analysis on my tactics trainer records, but I didn't see a place to download the actual numbers.  Is there any way to do this, or can it be implemented?  

If it is possible, I would like to do some similar analysis on my games.  

Thanks!

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Please, any data download in program-agnostic form; CSV much preferred over a particular (version of) a spreadsheet program.

I've only been a member for a day but do you want the data from the "Recent Problems"?  I'm attaching a screenshot of what mine look like, please confirm if this is what you are talking about:

Because if so, this is HTML "under the hood", and by using "view source" in Google Chrome, it is fairly well structured.  I'm including a screenshot of part of the HTML below.  It would not be too hard to write a program that could scan the HTML for the data you want and convert it to CSV format.  Likewise with game statistics, though the format of the "data" (HTML) would be different and so would require a different program.

Do you program?  Would you like to learn?  Or I could write something fairly quickly but there would have to be a quid pro quo.  Mineralfellow in particular seems a stronger player than me -- perhaps I could write the program in exchange for playing chess against a stronger opponent, so I can become stronger.

Let me know

Is there an official place on the site to request enhancements?

I agree a program could be written to pull out the information from the currently generated HTML, but it woud have to be updated every time the page format changes.

As chess.com have provided downloads for other things (such as game records) I suspect they wouldn't be averse to adding this feature, especially as "screen scrapers" (parsing program output and reformatting it predates the web ) are often not popular; they can generate unwanted load without any means for the user knowing what's going on in the backend server(s).

There's this forum: http://www.chess.com/forum/category/suggestions

You are correct, if they change their format, then the program breaks.

It wouldn't necessarily have to rely on screen scraping -- it could be done so that you view source, then cut and paste the source into a form and submit it.

Thanks for the URL. Given the HTML is generated, simplest by far is that chess.com offer a button to generate it in a different format; users parsing HTML or the site parsing HTML ... it's a "no-no" if you have the data in a database to begin with, as I am sure chess.com must have. (Sorry, computer programmer here. Can't help myself.)

I'll leave the original poster to make the request, as I'm not sure I'd use it, although it'd round out the site to be able to download tactical statistics as well as games.

Potential downside: chess.com may consider the tactical problems to be valuable intellectual property, as according to one of their staff members they have worked to eliminate errors from them. And how useful statistics would be without the problems they accompany, I'm not sure.

I've noticed that I can miss a mate in one move if there's a sufficiently tempting win of material on offer. I'm working on that. :-)

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you can use python and selenium to scrape the page