api VS lichess-bot

If you want a specific subset of games, you can use the API (there's also a button on individual profiles to download all of their games): https://lichess.org/api

API's are used to talk with web servers like Lichess: https://lichess.org/api

Other than that, the code is probably ready for GitHub. If you felt like extending it, you can use the lichess API to automate finding puzzles rather than having them in a file that you just read from.

Here is documentation on the Lichess Bot API: https://lichess.org/api

Considering you have some "data science" experience with Python, you might be interested in doing some analysis based on data you can get from the Lichess API or databases.

The Lichess API is documented at https://lichess.org/api

I coded this in a very simple way, just an HTML page with an inline script tag with some JS for updating the UI and such. But I think using Vue.js or another framework would be great for a Lichess-based project. These three pages are pretty useful: https://lichess.org/developers (for embedding a board like I did) https://lichess.org/api (API for getting data) https://database.lichess.org/ (database, for when nothing else works :))

Clone https://github.com/lichess-bot-devs/lichess-bot.git into your new project! Make sure you have github installed!

https://github.com/ShailChoksi/lichess-bot is a straight forward way to use any UCI engine with lichess. There are also a few libraries for move generation mine: https://github.com/Disservin/chess-library , libchess: https://github.com/kz04px/libchess , surge: https://github.com/nkarve/surge . These are C++ ones, for rust theres https://github.com/analog-hors/cozy-chess . In python you could use python-chess but its incredibly slow for engine stuff writing your own will probably be faster if you know what you are doing.

I would recommend downloading this bot, written in Python: https://github.com/ShailChoksi/lichess-bot

Once you have these basic UCI commands implemented, you can use this application to run your engine as BOT on lichess.

The bot uses the Shail Choksi's lichess-bot package (link) and stockfish. It's currently running on pythoneverywhere.com. I am very much a hobbyist and this is the first time I've done anything "useful" with coding. If you encounter any bugs, DM me and I'll do my best to fix them.

You can make a lichess bot with your engine (https://github.com/ShailChoksi/lichess-bot or similar API). The instructions are all fairly straightforward, but if you need any help feel free to reach out!

If you just want to make your engine play some games, with a uci interface you can quickly setup a bot account on lichess and challenge any available bot. https://github.com/ShailChoksi/lichess-bot