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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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Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitLab with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://gitlab.com/tomi-h/wp-chess-scraper/-/archive/main/wp-chess-scraper-main.zip
No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.
??# This is Chess Scraper, experimental WordPress plugin for scraping chess data from websites such as www.chess-results.com, www.fide.ratings.com and www.chess.sk. Plugin is used as a demonstration of using the Simple HTML DOM library for scraping in WordPress. # Chess Scraper allows you to get: # - a player roster for a chess club + information about these players (such as ELO) (plugin creates 2 new database tables) [NOTE: This part doesn't work. Is outdated because chess.sk website structure has changed.], # - league team rosters (a club can have several league teams) + information abou