Chess Scraper GitLab
WordPress experimental plugin for scraping chess data from websites such as chess-results.com, fide.ratings.com and chess.sk. Used as an example of using the Simple HTML DOM library for scraping in WordPress.
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No release zip yet. The repository archive installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow:
wp plugin install https://gitlab.com/tomi-h/wp-chess-scraper/-/archive/main/wp-chess-scraper-main.zipFrom the readme
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