/lichess-gist

Repo That updates a gist with Lichess.org's ratings

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

lichess gist box

♟︎ Update a pinned gist to contain your top Lichess varients' rating

📌✨ For more pinned-gist projects like this one, check out: https://github.com/matchai/awesome-pinned-gists

🎒 Prep Work

  1. Create a new public GitHub Gist (https://gist.github.com/)
  2. Create a token with the gist scope and copy it. (https://github.com/settings/tokens/new)
  3. Copy the API token

🖥 Project Setup

  1. Fork this repo
  2. Go to your fork's Settings > Secrets > Add a new secret for each environment secret (below)

🤫 Environment Secrets

  • GH_TOKEN: The GitHub token generated above.

  • GIST_ID: The ID portion from your gist url:

    https://gist.github.com/sciencepal/ce5221fc5f3739d2c81ce7db99f17519.

    (Alternatively this can be put directly in .github/workflows/lichess.yml as it is public anyway.)

  • LICHESS_USERNAME: Your lichess.org username. (This can also be put directly in the yml)

✨ Credits

This code was heavily inspired (with some code taken over) by @sciencepal's chess-com-box-py.