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I would like to make something that has the capability to convert a chess game in chess.com to a text-to-speech output (for example to play blindfolded.) I know this has been made before, but I'm not looking for the product but rather the process. Is there a way to extract moves as they are being made or the PGN or something like that from a live chess.com game while it's happening? Assume I know everything I need to know, just give me the explanation if possible.

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You can just scrape the HTML. Here's a picture of the HTML that chess.com uses to store moves:

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Most modern languages have ways of scraping HTML on update, so this should solve your problem.

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If you click the "Explorer" icon during the game, it will open the Opening Explorer page in a new window. The URL of the page will contain the move list. For example:

https://www.chess.com/explorer?moveList=e4+e5+Nf3+Nc6

If you want the actual PGN, it can also easily be accessed from that page using the normal buttons.

I assume there's some limit as to how many moves are allowed, although I just tried it 35 moves into a game and it still had all the moves.

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  • Do you know if there's a way to export this in some way?
    – TheCodedMaster Cubing
    Feb 8, 2022 at 23:33

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