Terms of Service Regarding the Parsing of Site Data

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lots_of_friends

Hey,

Do the Chess.com terms of service approve of people programmatically parsing data from the website? I know some sites don't approve of this. Not trying to do anything malicious -- just want to see what cool things I can do with my game data.

Thanks.

Martin_Stahl
lots_of_friends wrote:

Hey,

Do the Chess.com terms of service approve of people programmatically parsing data from the website? I know some sites don't approve of this. Not trying to do anything malicious -- just want to see what cool things I can do with my game data.

Thanks.

 

The site provide a public API for anything accessible to anonymous users.

 

https://www.chess.com/developers

 

Beyond that API, using data scraping utilities is against the site 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 Service or its contents;
lots_of_friends

Thanks. I'll use the API.