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Lichess player ratings histogram
import time
import json
import urllib2
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# change this to something big, hundreds or thousands
n_users = 10
chess960 = []
blitz = []
kingOfTheHill = []
threeCheck = []
antichess = []
bullet = []
correspondence = []
puzzle = []
atomic = []
opening = []
classical = []
# get a list of users
users_json = urllib2.urlopen(
'http://en.lichess.org/api/user?nb=' + str(n_users)).read()
users = json.loads(users_json)
for i, user in enumerate(users['list']):
print 'Processing user', (i + 1)
# send request for individual user
user_json = urllib2.urlopen(
"http://en.lichess.org/api/user/" + user['username']).read()
user_perfs = json.loads(user_json)['perfs']
# gather data
chess960.append(int(user_perfs['chess960']['rating']))
blitz.append(int(user_perfs['blitz']['rating']))
kingOfTheHill.append(int(user_perfs['kingOfTheHill']['rating']))
threeCheck.append(int(user_perfs['threeCheck']['rating']))
antichess.append(int(user_perfs['antichess']['rating']))
bullet.append(int(user_perfs['bullet']['rating']))
correspondence.append(int(user_perfs['correspondence']['rating']))
puzzle.append(int(user_perfs['puzzle']['rating']))
atomic.append(int(user_perfs['atomic']['rating']))
opening.append(int(user_perfs['opening']['rating']))
classical.append(int(user_perfs['classical']['rating']))
# dont hammer the server - sleep for 1 second between requests
time.sleep(1)
# If you're running this for real, you should probably break here,
# save the data and load it back up again to do the analysis.
# You don't want to have to wait around every time you try a different graph
# plot a histogram for the player blitz ratings
# replace with whatever game you want to look at
plt.hist(blitz)
plt.show()
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