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Download all your Chess.com games to PGN
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import requests | |
import os | |
## Set your username at the bottom of this file | |
def download_games(username, output_directory): | |
url = f"https://api.chess.com/pub/player/{username}/games/archives" | |
response = requests.get(url) | |
if response.status_code != 200: | |
print(f"Error: Unable to access user archives at {url}") | |
return | |
archives = response.json()["archives"] | |
if not os.path.exists(output_directory): | |
os.makedirs(output_directory) | |
for archive_url in archives: | |
response = requests.get(f"{archive_url}/pgn") | |
if response.status_code != 200: | |
print(f"Error: Unable to download archive at {archive_url}") | |
continue | |
month = archive_url.split("/")[-1] | |
file_path = os.path.join(output_directory, f"{username}_{month}.pgn") | |
with open(file_path, "w") as file: | |
file.write(response.text) | |
print(f"Downloaded {username}'s games for {month} to {file_path}") | |
if __name__ == "__main__": | |
username = "Hikaru" # Replace with your chess.com username | |
output_directory = "chess_games" # You can change this to the desired output directory | |
download_games(username, output_directory) |
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