Chess.com Games API

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Chess.com Published Data Clubs Games API
  description: 'Public, read-only REST API exposing Chess.com data: player profiles and stats, monthly game

    archives (JSON and PGN), clubs and members, daily and live team matches, Swiss and round-robin

    tournaments, titled-player lists, country rosters, the daily puzzle, the streamer list, and

    live leaderboards.


    The API is unauthenticated; rate limiting applies to parallel requests (429 Too Many Requests).

    Responses use JSON-LD with ETag, Last-Modified, gzip, and JSONP support. Most endpoints refresh

    at most every 12-24 hours. Clients are encouraged to send a recognizable User-Agent including a

    contact email or URL.

    '
  version: '2026-05-25'
  contact:
    name: Chess.com Support
    url: https://support.chess.com
  x-logo:
    url: https://www.chess.com/favicon.ico
servers:
- url: https://api.chess.com/pub
  description: Chess.com Published Data API
tags:
- name: Games
  description: Daily, live, and archived games (JSON and PGN)
paths:
  /player/{username}/games:
    get:
      summary: Get Player Current Daily Games
      operationId: getPlayerCurrentGames
      tags:
      - Games
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Username'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: In-progress daily chess games
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  games:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/Game'
  /player/{username}/games/to-move:
    get:
      summary: Get Player Games To Move
      operationId: getPlayerGamesToMove
      tags:
      - Games
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Username'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Daily games waiting on the player to move
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
  /player/{username}/games/archives:
    get:
      summary: List Player Game Archives
      operationId: listPlayerArchives
      tags:
      - Games
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Username'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: URLs of available monthly archives
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  archives:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      type: string
                      format: uri
  /player/{username}/games/{year}/{month}:
    get:
      summary: Get Player Monthly Archive
      operationId: getPlayerMonthlyArchive
      tags:
      - Games
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Username'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Year'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Month'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: All games completed in the given month
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  games:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/Game'
  /player/{username}/games/{year}/{month}/pgn:
    get:
      summary: Get Player Monthly Archive PGN
      operationId: getPlayerMonthlyArchivePgn
      tags:
      - Games
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Username'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Year'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Month'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: All games in the given month as a multi-game PGN stream
          content:
            application/x-chess-pgn:
              schema:
                type: string
components:
  schemas:
    Game:
      type: object
      properties:
        url:
          type: string
          format: uri
        pgn:
          type: string
        time_control:
          type: string
        end_time:
          type: integer
        rated:
          type: boolean
        fen:
          type: string
        time_class:
          type: string
          enum:
          - daily
          - rapid
          - blitz
          - bullet
        rules:
          type: string
          enum:
          - chess
          - chess960
          - bughouse
          - kingofthehill
          - threecheck
          - crazyhouse
        white:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/GamePlayer'
        black:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/GamePlayer'
    GamePlayer:
      type: object
      properties:
        rating:
          type: integer
        result:
          type: string
          enum:
          - win
          - checkmated
          - agreed
          - repetition
          - timeout
          - resigned
          - stalemate
          - lose
          - insufficient
          - 50move
          - abandoned
          - kingofthehill
          - threecheck
          - bughousepartnerlose
        '@id':
          type: string
          format: uri
        username:
          type: string
  parameters:
    Month:
      name: month
      in: path
      required: true
      description: Two-digit month
      schema:
        type: string
        pattern: ^(0[1-9]|1[0-2])$
    Username:
      name: username
      in: path
      required: true
      description: All-lowercase Chess.com username
      schema:
        type: string
    Year:
      name: year
      in: path
      required: true
      description: Four-digit year
      schema:
        type: string
        pattern: ^[0-9]{4}$