berserk 0.12.8

Python client for the lichess API

Python client for the Lichess API.

This is based on the original berserk version created by rhgrant10 and the berserk-downstream fork created by ZackClements. Big thanks to them and all other contributors!

Documentation

Installation

Requires Python 3.8+. Download and install the latest release:

pip3 install berserk

If you have berserk-downstream installed, make sure to uninstall it first!

Features

• handles (ND)JSON and PGN formats at user’s discretion

• token auth session

• easy integration with OAuth2

• automatically converts time values to datetimes

Usage

You can use any requests.Session-like object as a session, including those from requests_oauth. A simple token session is included, as shown below:

import berserk

session = berserk.TokenSession(API_TOKEN)
client = berserk.Client(session=session)

Most of the API is available:

client.account.get
client.account.get_email
client.account.get_preferences
client.account.get_kid_mode
client.account.set_kid_mode
client.account.upgrade_to_bot

client.board.stream_incoming_events
client.board.seek
client.board.stream_game_state
client.board.make_move
client.board.post_message
client.board.get_game_chat
client.board.abort_game
client.board.resign_game
client.board.handle_draw_offer
client.board.offer_draw
client.board.accept_draw
client.board.decline_draw
client.board.handle_takeback_offer
client.board.offer_takeback
client.board.accept_takeback
client.board.decline_takeback
client.board.claim_victory
client.board.go_berserk

client.bots.get_online_bots
client.bots.stream_incoming_events
client.bots.stream_game_state
client.bots.make_move
client.bots.post_message
client.bots.abort_game
client.bots.resign_game
client.bots.accept_challenge
client.bots.decline_challenge

client.broadcasts.get_official
client.broadcasts.create
client.broadcasts.get
client.broadcasts.update
client.broadcasts.push_pgn_update
client.broadcasts.create_round
client.broadcasts.get_round
client.broadcasts.update_round
client.broadcasts.get_round_pgns
client.broadcasts.get_pgns

client.challenges.create
client.challenges.create_ai
client.challenges.create_open
client.challenges.create_with_accept
client.challenges.accept
client.challenges.decline

client.explorer.get_lichess_games

client.games.export
client.games.export_ongoing_by_player
client.games.export_by_player
client.games.export_multi
client.games.get_among_players
client.games.stream_games_by_ids
client.games.add_game_ids_to_stream
client.games.get_ongoing
client.games.stream_game_moves
client.games.get_tv_channels
client.games.import_game

client.messaging.send

client.oauth.test_tokens

client.puzzles.get_daily
client.puzzles.get
client.puzzles.get_puzzle_activity
client.puzzles.get_puzzle_dashboard
client.puzzles.get_storm_dashboard

client.relations.get_users_followed
client.relations.follow
client.relations.unfollow

client.simuls.get

client.studies.export_chapter
client.studies.export

client.tablebase.look_up
client.tablebase.standard
client.tablebase.atomic
client.tablebase.antichess

client.teams.get_members
client.teams.join
client.teams.leave
client.teams.kick_member
client.teams.get_join_requests
client.teams.accept_join_request

client.tournaments.get
client.tournaments.get_tournament
client.tournaments.create_arena
client.tournaments.create_swiss
client.tournaments.export_arena_games
client.tournaments.export_swiss_games
client.tournaments.arena_by_team
client.tournaments.swiss_by_team
client.tournaments.tournaments_by_user
client.tournaments.stream_results
client.tournaments.stream_by_creator

client.tv.get_current_games
client.tv.stream_current_game
client.tv.get_best_ongoing

client.users.get_realtime_statuses
client.users.get_all_top_10
client.users.get_leaderboard
client.users.get_public_data
client.users.get_activity_feed
client.users.get_by_id
client.users.get_by_team
client.users.get_live_streamers
client.users.get_rating_history
client.users.get_crosstable
client.users.get_user_performance

Details for each function can be found in the documentation.