I'm trying to retrieve various data from the Chess.com API using Python. I came across a pretty intuitive wrapper documented here, but when I try to run any of the given functions I keep getting a ChessDotComError due to the API's response.
Here is the original code:
from chessdotcom import get_leaderboards
def print_leaderboards():
data = get_leaderboards().json
print("Success!")
print_leaderboards()
Here is the error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\Users\witte\Documents\VS Code\chessdotcom-scraper.py", line 7, in <module>
print_leaderboards()
File "c:\Users\witte\Documents\VS Code\chessdotcom-scraper.py", line 4, in print_leaderboards
data = get_leaderboards().json
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\witte\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python311\site-packages\chessdotcom\client.py", line 118, in wrapper
return cls.do_get_request(func(*args, **kwargs))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\witte\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python311\site-packages\chessdotcom\client.py", line 112, in do_get_request
return _do_get_request(resource)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\witte\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python311\site-packages\chessdotcom\client.py", line 78, in _do_sync_get_request
raise ChessDotComError(
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Here is documentation of a ChessDotComError (source):
exception chessdotcom.types.ChessDotComError(status_code: int, response_text: str, headers:CIMultiDictProxy)
Variables
• status_code – Contains the status code of the API’s response.
• json – Dictionary representation of the API’s response.
• text – API’s raw response decoded into a string.
In the API response I see it says "Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue", but I'm not sure how to do that or if that's what's causing the issue. Is anyone else having trouble using this wrapper or the chess.com API? Any help is appreciated!
In the wrapper's documentation there's two methods listed for retrieving data. I was initially using synchronous API requests, but when I switched to asynchronous requests I got it working.
BTW - Make sure to use await instead of asyncio.run() in the last line of their example in 3.2.2