Lichess Rating Parser

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  Lichess Home Page

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  Program in Action

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  Lichess Ratings

Inspiration

As a chess enthusiast, I am interested in seeing the ratings of the top players. However, it is an inconvenience to switch from each player's rating page.

What it does

The program downloads a user's home page on Lichess as an html, extracts rating information, and displays the formatted data.

How we built it

We used curl to download the Lichess website profiles. A bash script combines the front-end and text manipulation components together.

Challenges we ran into

It was difficult to isolate the ratings from the html file.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The program works as intended.

What we learned

We learned how to embed images in a markdown file. Capturing groups in grep using lookahead and lookbehind.

What's next for Lichess Rating Parser

We plan to make it possible to input a list of usernames to make looking up ratings even more efficient.

Built With

• bash
• curl
• grep
• pr
• shell