licheaters-app

Check if you played against anyone on Lichess now marked as violating ToS or if they closed their account.

Install

1. Clone Repo
2. pip install -r requirements.txt

Create api access token on Lichess

1. https://lichess.org/account/oauth/token
   • Read & Write preferences checked under 'User Account'
2. Copy & paste this value in your .env file where 'api_key={Insert token here - remove brackets}' (paste after the = sign - no quotes needed)

Create a secret key

1. You can do this by creating a new python file:

import secrets

print(secrets.token_hex())

Run this and then copy & paste this value in your .env file where 'SECRET_KEY=" "' (paste value after = sign, in between the quotes)

Run app.py

• Navigate to http://127.0.0.1:5000 or http://localhost:5000/
• Enter your username or login through lichess ( login will greatly speed up the search)
• Enter an appropriate date range
• Enter # of games to check
• Click Analyze Games and then have some patience! :-)

Notes/Info:

• Lichess ToS: https://lichess.org/terms-of-service
• If someone violated the ToS and then closed their account, they will show as Closed.

Thanks!

• lakinwecker for lichess-oauth-flask example