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Does anyone know if any of the popular go servers have a reasonably well documented API?

I'd like to start a side project of developing a web client but haven't been able to find any documentation in regards to communicating with their server.

Any help would be really appreciated.
Thanks

KGS is publicly very closed with their API. So, has no API. IIRC, IGS has a more accessible API, or used to... It could be accessed even via telnet. Tygem and Wbaduk, no idea, and OGS I think is completely closed (already web-based anyway.)

RBerenguel wrote:KGS is publicly very closed with their API. So, has no API. IIRC, IGS has a more accessible API, or used to... It could be accessed even via telnet. Tygem and Wbaduk, no idea, and OGS I think is completely closed (already web-based anyway.)

Thanks for the response.

Yeah I've found mention of being able to connect to IGS via telnet, but the links to that information seem to be broken. OGS is open potentially open, but has no API. They have an offer to work with client dev/des'ers to get outside clients connected, but I'm not sure if I want to deal with working with a system that has no API. Seems like it would make for possible nightmare for future maintenance/updates.

Alright, I found this page which at least has some info on how to connect via telnet. The command documentation is non-existent, but hopefully I can get enough info from help commands to make it feasible to work with.

OGS is working on one for their next release: http://beta.online-go.com/api/v1/

HermanHiddema wrote:OGS is working on one for their next release: http://beta.online-go.com/api/v1/

Nice, thanks for the link.

I was able to connect to IGS through telnet. So between that and the future ogs api I think I should be fine.
I guess the project is a go.

moss wrote:Does anyone know if any of the popular go servers have a reasonably well documented API?

I'd like to start a side project of developing a web client but haven't been able to find any documentation in regards to communicating with their server.

DGS (turn-based go-server) has an open API, though DGS is already web-based.
API-specs can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/p/dragongoserver ... _suite.txt
On source-forge there's also a test-server, that can be used to test clients.

NNGS used to be open source, but I do not know if the code is still available.

moss wrote:

HermanHiddema wrote:OGS is working on one for their next release: http://beta.online-go.com/api/v1/

Nice, thanks for the link.

I was able to connect to IGS through telnet. So between that and the future ogs api I think I should be fine.
I guess the project is a go.

What is your project?