# Chess.com Player Scraper - Profiles, Ratings & Stats (`ninhothedev/chess-com-player-scraper`) Actor

$0.35/1K 🔥 Fast Chess.com player scraper! Profiles — title, followers, rapid/blitz/bullet ratings, FIDE & country. No key. JSON, CSV, Excel or API in seconds. List usernames & pull thousands for chess apps & analytics ⚡

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ninhothedev/chess-com-player-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ninhothedev](https://apify.com/ninhothedev) (community)
- **Categories:**
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.35 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Chess.com Player Scraper 🐴

**Scrape Chess.com player profiles, ratings, titles and stats at scale — no API key, no login, no proxies required.**

Give the actor a list of Chess.com usernames and get back one clean row per player: display name, title (GM/IM/FM…), follower count, country, league, join date, last-online time, and **rapid / blitz / bullet ratings**, plus tactics and FIDE rating. Powered by the official public Chess.com Published-Data API, so results are fast, accurate and **datacenter-proxy friendly**.

***

### ✨ Features

- **Profiles + ratings + stats in one row** — profile and `/stats` endpoints merged into a single flat record per player.
- **Rapid, blitz & bullet ratings** — current ratings pulled straight from the player's live stats.
- **Titles & FIDE** — GM/IM/FM/WGM titles, tactics high score and official FIDE rating.
- **No key, no login, no residential proxy** — runs on cheap datacenter IPs.
- **Bulk-friendly** — feed up to 1,000 usernames per run; missing users are skipped automatically.
- **Every field nullable** — predictable schema for downstream apps and pipelines.

### 📥 Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `mode` | select | Scrape mode. Currently `players` (usernames → profile + stats). |
| `usernames` | array | Chess.com usernames (case-insensitive). Prefilled with `hikaru`, `magnuscarlsen`, `gothamchess`. |
| `maxItems` | integer | Hard cap on how many usernames to process (default 100, max 1000). |

```json
{
    "mode": "players",
    "usernames": ["hikaru", "magnuscarlsen", "gothamchess"],
    "maxItems": 100
}
```

### 📤 Output

One dataset item per player:

```json
{
    "username": "hikaru",
    "name": "Hikaru Nakamura",
    "title": "GM",
    "followers": 1401735,
    "country": "US",
    "location": "Florida",
    "status": "premium",
    "is_streamer": true,
    "league": "Legend",
    "joined": "2014-01-06T21:20:58+00:00",
    "last_online": "2026-07-16T18:06:56+00:00",
    "rapid_rating": 2839,
    "blitz_rating": 3430,
    "bullet_rating": 3339,
    "tactics_highest": 2730,
    "fide": 2814,
    "url": "https://www.chess.com/member/Hikaru",
    "scraped_at": "2026-07-19T11:00:00+00:00"
}
```

Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or via API.

### 💰 Pricing

Pay-per-result: **~$0.50 per 1,000 players** on top of Apify platform usage. A typical run of a few hundred usernames costs a few cents.

### 🎯 Use cases

- **Chess apps & tools** — enrich player directories, leaderboards and matchmaking with live ratings.
- **Coaching & academies** — track student progress across rapid/blitz/bullet over time.
- **Analytics & research** — build datasets of titled players, rating distributions and country breakdowns.
- **Fan sites & content** — power streamer pages, tournament previews and "player of the week" widgets.

### 🔍 How it compares

| | This actor | Manual API scripting | Generic scrapers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Profile + stats merged | ✅ | ⚠️ two calls each | ❌ |
| Ratings flattened (rapid/blitz/bullet) | ✅ | ❌ manual digging | ❌ |
| Bulk usernames | ✅ up to 1,000 | ⚠️ DIY | ⚠️ |
| No key / datacenter friendly | ✅ | ✅ | ⚠️ |
| Clean nullable schema | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |

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### 🏷️ Keywords

chess.com scraper, chess player scraper, chess ratings api, chess.com api, blitz rating, bullet rating, rapid rating, FIDE rating, chess stats, grandmaster data, chess analytics, chess data export

***

*This actor uses only the public Chess.com Published-Data API and returns publicly available profile data. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Chess.com.*

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

What to scrape. 'players' takes a list of usernames and returns each player's profile plus ratings and stats.

## `usernames` (type: `array`):

List of Chess.com usernames to scrape (case-insensitive). One profile + stats record is returned per username. Missing users (HTTP 404) are skipped.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on how many usernames are processed. Useful to limit runs and cost.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "players",
  "usernames": [
    "hikaru",
    "magnuscarlsen",
    "gothamchess"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "usernames": [
        "hikaru",
        "magnuscarlsen",
        "gothamchess"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ninhothedev/chess-com-player-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "usernames": [
        "hikaru",
        "magnuscarlsen",
        "gothamchess",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ninhothedev/chess-com-player-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "usernames": [
    "hikaru",
    "magnuscarlsen",
    "gothamchess"
  ]
}' |
apify call ninhothedev/chess-com-player-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,ninhothedev/chess-com-player-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/bVqkdiAdY3p281h5t/builds/xGkSFm9rfVIjYpeIq/openapi.json