Chess.com Games API
Daily, live, and archived games (JSON and PGN)
Chess.com Games API is one of 10 APIs that Chess.com publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 3 JSON Schema definitions.
Tagged areas include Games. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a JSON-LD context, and 3 JSON Schemas.
This API exposes 5 operations across 5 paths, and defines 2 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 2026-05-25.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.chess.com/pub.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Paths & Operations 5
Across 5 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 5 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Daily, live, and archived games (JSON and PGN)
Schemas 2
The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Game (10 properties), GamePlayer (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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