https://github.com/gamut73/chessdotcomcrawler

Get games of your favorite chess players from chess.com
https://github.com/gamut73/chessdotcomcrawler

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Get games of your favorite chess players from chess.com

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gamut73/chessdotcomcrawler
• Owner: Gamut73
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-12-23T12:31:34.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2020-12-29T14:10:29.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-08-01T22:24:14.516Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: Jupyter Notebook
• Size: 10.7 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# chessdotcomCrawler

## Get pro chess player's games

chess.com does have an api but those are for games played on their platforms. This class automates getting the games of pro players from this particular page: https://www.chess.com/games.

## The Program:

- input: name of chess player(e.g gary-kasparov)

- while running: the driver I am using is chrome which requires you to give you permission to download multiple files. The prompt will only appear on page 2 and after you click allow you don't have to do anything about it.

- output: The download files a saved in your default download path for chrome.

## Dependencies

- selenium

- google chrome(chromedriver)