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Chess.com

Read-only access to Chess.com players, games and clubs

🎮 GamesHEALTHYchecked 24 min ago
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ✓HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ?

Chess.com's Published-Data API exposes public profiles, game archives, clubs, tournaments and leaderboards. Fetch a player by username to get their profile as JSON—no key, CORS enabled. The API prefers serial rather than parallel requests.

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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 98 · healthy
Uptime history
99.02%90 days
98.3%30 days
168P50 · ms
682P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 55 ms, slowest 481 ms, most recent 124 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://api.chess.com/pub/player/erik

{
  "player_id": 41,
  "username": "erik",
  "name": "Erik",
  "followers": 9944,
  "country": "https://api.chess.com/pub/country/US",
  "status": "staff",
  "league": "Silver"
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://api.chess.com/pub/player/erik"
const res = await fetch("https://api.chess.com/pub/player/erik");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://api.chess.com/pub/player/erik")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 6HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /player/erik168 mschecked 24 min ago
GET/player/erikPROBED

Read-only access to Chess.com players, games and clubs

GET/player

Player — documented GET route.

GET/player/1

Player details by ID (example: 1).

GET/player?limit=10

Player — documented GET route.

GET/player/search?q=test

Search by query parameters.

GET/player/hikaru

Hikaru — documented GET route.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

Chess.com: common questions

Is Chess.com free to use?

Yes — Chess.com is a free games API. Free tier: Free — no API key. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does Chess.com need an API key?

No — Chess.com needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Serial requests expected; no fixed cap published).

Can I call Chess.com from the browser?

Yes — Chess.com returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is Chess.com up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Chess.com is healthy with 99.02% uptime over 90 days and a 168 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.