Lichess TV API
Access Lichess TV channels and games. &
Lichess TV API is one of 23 APIs that Lichess publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification and an AsyncAPI event-driven specification.
This API exposes 2 JSON Schema definitions.
Tagged areas include TV. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an AsyncAPI specification, a JSON-LD context, and 2 JSON Schemas.
This API exposes 4 operations across 4 paths, and defines 19 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 2.0.144.
Requests are made against 4 base URLs: https://lichess.org, https://lichess.dev, http://localhost:{port}, http://l.org.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Lichess TV API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It supports OAuth 2.0 (OAuth2) using the authorizationCode flow, exposing 23 scopes.
OAuth2— Read [the introduction for how to make authenticated requests](description/authentication).
Paths & Operations 4
Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 4 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Access Lichess TV channels and games. &
Schemas 19
The contract defines 19 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are GameJson (22 properties), GamePlayerUser (8 properties), LightUser (6 properties), GameMoveAnalysis (5 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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