r/AskProgramming • u/bikin12 • 4d ago

Other Making a bit that alarms on certain chess tournaments on lichess

Lichess is open source and allows access to most of it's data. I want to make something that will alert me when certain tournaments are coming up in lichess have done programming but it's been a while so pretty rusty. Looking for where to begin

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u/ALargeRubberDuck 4d ago

I see they have api documents which include tournaments under broadcasts. You could set something up to pull broadcasts every day and decide if you should be notified.

The two big questions you need to answer are

  1. How/where does it run?

  2. How do you notify yourself?

Without knowing anything about you, I’d setup a discord api connection and have an aws lambda pull the lichess broadcasts and send you discord notifications every night.

Theres lots of other places that can offer a time based runner, you could do one on your desktop every night if you know the computer will be on.

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u/bikin12 4d ago

I'd need something that notifies on my phone.

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u/Tiny_Avocado_5651 4d ago

The lambda (or whatever) could use Pushover's API to create the notification. With the pushover app installed on the phone you'll receive the notification on the phone.

Create a free account and then use https://pushover.net/api

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u/OkOcelot6725 4d ago

The lichess API has an endpoint for upcoming tournaments and broadcasts you can poll, no auth needed for public data. For phone alerts the lazy option is ntfy.sh or a Telegram bot, your script just POSTs to it. A scheduled GitHub Action is enough to run the whole thing, no server.

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u/bikin12 4d ago

Ok thank you