Chess.com live leaderboards API

Chess.com top-player leaderboards by category (blitz/bullet/rapid/daily/tactics/bughouse) with rank, username, title, country, score, and W-L-D, normalized from the keyless Published-Data API. Answers queries like 'top blitz players on chess.com', 'who is number one in bullet', 'chess.com leaderboard'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/data/sports-chess-leaderboards

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache3600s public

sportschesschesscomleaderboardrankingratingtop-playersesports

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/data/sports-chess-leaderboards

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "category": "blitz",
  "limit": 25
}

Example response

{
  "category": "blitz",
  "count": 25,
  "players": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "username": "MagnusCarlsen",
      "name": "Magnus Carlsen",
      "title": "GM",
      "country": "NO",
      "score": 3381,
      "wins": 4855,
      "losses": 1071,
      "draws": 818
    }
  ]
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "category": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "blitz",
        "bullet",
        "rapid"
      ]
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "examples": [
        25
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}