Still no PGN download of my game archive?

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Hi all,

I'm a little frustrated that chess.com has still not implemented a facility enabling me to download _all_ of the games I've played in PGN format.  Currently, the only way to do this is to browse each and every page of my game archive:

https://www.chess.com/games/archive/[USERNAME]?gameOwner=my_game&gameTypes%5B0%5D=chess960&gameTypes%5B1%5D=daily&gameType=live

I have 38 pages, but I'm sure others have many more.

This discussion has appeared many times, so apologies for bringing it up again. Here are some of the previous discussions:

The only workable solution is to use a Python script to scrape chess.com:

There is a very usable API at:

... which I _could_ easily use to automate my own downloads, but why? I want to play chess not write some software.

When will chess.com offer the ability to download all games, or at least officially support a separate open source project which does this?

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The API was published so that people could extract what they needed.

There is a developers club. What do they say about your project?

Avatar of QuietCorner

Thanks @notmtwain.

I wasn't aware of the developer's club. The linked project is not mine, btw.

Avatar of QuietCorner

Whatever. I've created my own script to download the PGN files.
It's here, for reference.
https://gitlab.com/raeq/pgnscaper/tree/master/

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QuietCorner wrote:

Whatever. I've created my own script to download the PGN files.
It's here, for reference.
https://gitlab.com/raeq/pgnscaper/tree/master/

Did you check out the club/ post your script?

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notmtwain wrote:

Did you check out the club/ post your script?


Nope. I simply wrote the script and moved on happy.png

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OK, I've written a post in the developer's club for their reference too.