Wow, you must have put a lot of work into this project! Many late nights? Very cool to have an archive of my games on my computer. Awesome job!
Track stats and game history like a premium member for free
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ultimatekiwi wrote:
Wow, you must have put a lot of work into this project! Many late nights? Very cool to have an archive of my games on my computer. Awesome job!
I'm glad you appreciate it...
NZmaori wrote:
Thanks for your help. I will try it.
Were you able to get it working? I haven't tried using it with the new website... Let me make sure its still working
Anyone able to get this working?
Sounds great i'll try it.
I tried it and i dont quite get why non of the files dont work but they dont.
Aug 1, 2017
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Please join the new Chess.com Developer's Community Club for discussions and announcements as we create our new API for your use.
https://www.chess.com/club/chess-com-developer-community
I don't know if anyone will find this useful, but I've made a utility that allows you to track your stats like a premium member for free. It doesn't provide the same seamless experience that chess.com does, but it also has some nice features that some may find useful. Here are some photos showing a comparison of the official chess.com graph and the graph generated by the utility.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24463404@N02/4725942851/
The program works by downloading all of your PGN files, and placing this data into a single .xls (excel) file where it is easy to organize and graph the information. Alot of information is available, but the program is currently configured to output only a few things to (I could easily change this upon request as the rest is stored to an xml file).
The utility does require you to update when you play more games, but this is all handled realtively seamlessly (there are some conditions under which things become buggy). The first time you run the program it may take a small amount of time (tops 5 minutes) to download and parse all the data. Chess.com does not have an api or anything like that so it was slightly difficult to extract all the data from their servers (it actually required that I go into their html and parse through it).
Another unfortunate downside of the utility is that it requires that you set up a few things, namely Python, Beautiful Soup and the python-excel packages. For those of you with any unix based OS (OSX, Linux) I have included an installer file installer.py that will do all of this for you. If you have mac osx you already have python installed in terminal!! I've included all of these files in the link below, and instructions on how to set them up (its actually pretty easy). Feel free to contact me if you have difficulty.
[Link removed, did not work anymore - DB]